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Author Archives: Max Spokes

Max (he/him) was formerly Environment News Editor and Climate Columnist at The Blue. He is in his final year studying History and Politics at Balliol.

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Women’s Equality Party adopts Oxford economist’s ‘Doughnut’ model for green economic recovery

by Max Spokes October 20, 2020October 20, 2020
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Oxford Climate Justice Campaign calls on University to tackle climate crisis and ‘systemic racism’

by Max Spokes October 13, 2020October 14, 2020
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2020 had warmest September on record, data shows

by Max Spokes October 7, 2020October 7, 2020
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Kae Tempest’s ‘On Connection’: A Review

by Max Spokes October 4, 2020October 4, 2020
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Parents hold Radcliffe Camera ‘shoe strike’ on day of global climate action

by Max Spokes September 25, 2020September 25, 2020
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Oxfam report exposes ‘The Era of Extreme Carbon Inequality’

by Max Spokes September 21, 2020September 21, 2020
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Public wants a fairer, greener Britain after Covid, report finds

by Max Spokes September 19, 2020July 18, 2021
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WWF State of Nature report 2020: What you need to know

by Max Spokes September 10, 2020September 10, 2020
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City Council and Oxford University accused of passing buck on environmental commitments

by Max Spokes September 8, 2020September 17, 2020
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Oxford academic supports ‘landmark’ climate bill presented to Parliament

by Max Spokes September 2, 2020September 3, 2020

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Why I Refuse to Wear The Red Poppy

Max Spokes Dec 5, 2025 4 min read
Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

It is the 11th of November again, the date when the guns fell silent in 1918, when an armistice was signed in France marking the…

Telltaylor: By a Lancashire Farm Shop, I Sat Down and Wept

Max Spokes Dec 4, 2025 9 min read
An image of the Radcliffe Camera against a sunset sky, with the text 'TELLTAYLOR' written in front.

“I was always a muse, a magician’s trick, bending my own image to enhance his own. He seemed to compliment me only if the words fit…

Do different languages change the way we think?

Max Spokes Dec 4, 2025 5 min read
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According to the legend of Babel, the existence of different languages on Earth began as a punishment. Humanity, daring to build its tower skyward, was…

Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

Max Spokes Dec 3, 2025 6 min read
Meta-Whorf-asis: on litost and translated fiction

‘The term depicts a feeling “as infinite as an open accordion, a synthesis of grief, sympathy, remorse, and indefinable longing”, which begs the question –…

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