🔴 NEW - Farage and Vance ‘Sherpa’ Attacked ‘Ukraine Brain’ at Oil-Backed Festival
An academic with ties to Reform slammed the UK’s strong support for Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social
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🔴 NEW - Farage and Vance ‘Sherpa’ Attacked ‘Ukraine Brain’ at Oil-Backed Festival
An academic with ties to Reform slammed the UK’s strong support for Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social
🔴 NEW - Reform paid almost £1.3 million to right-wing newspapers during the 2024 general election campaign - roughly 25% of its total budget.
📝 @desmog.com scoop with @adambarnett.bsky.social 👇
The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here.
These are the ones published since Labour won the election.
"We are happy to correct the record."
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
Screenshot of form on the UK Met Office website. Text reads: "You can provide up to 5 storm names in the boxes below. Storm Name: [a user has filled this in with "BigOil"] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with BP] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Equinor] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Exxon] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Shell]
So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms.
And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...
This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
🔴 NEW 🔴
Corporate Lobbying Eroded Flagship EU Sustainability Rules – Report
An 'unparalleled competitiveness hysteria' is at play, according to transparency campaigner
@kennethhaar.bsky.social from @corporateeurope.org
For @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/06/24/c...
🔴 NEW 🔴
Corporate Lobbying Eroded Flagship EU Sustainability Rules – Report
An 'unparalleled competitiveness hysteria' is at play, according to transparency campaigner @kennethhaar.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/06/24/c...
Great British PAC's website, ex-Reform Ben Habib's new right-wing fundraising body, is plastered with AI-generated images
You'd think someone would check the images before uploading
Rishi Sunak made £344,911 for speaking for a total of 6.5 hours at two speaking arrangements in May this year.
It would take the average British worker 9.2 years to earn the same amount.
The higher the bonnet, the bigger the blind spot. Diagram showing how drivers can't see children in high fronted cars.
NEW RESEARCH: new car bonnets are trending higher every year and drivers of high fronted cars unable to see children as old as nine 😱🚙🚸❗
#Carspreading is out of control. What’s the latest? 🧵1/8
@transenv.bsky.social @cleancitiescampaign.org
The Conservative Party's new national digital campaign manager finished his undergraduate degree in July last year –could they not find literally anyone more qualified?
12.06.2025 11:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I hate so much that there's a Big Dark Roof sabotaging climate policies, ffs
05.06.2025 10:12 — 👍 115 🔁 36 💬 7 📌 1By this definition even the King of Britain isn't counted as British
Clown show stuff from Matt Goodwin
🔴 NEW 🔴
GB News Owner Paul Marshall Calls for BBC’s Fact-Checking Service to be Shut Down
Marshall, who also owns The Spectator, called for the public broadcaster to be part-privatised at a Pharos Foundation event.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @joeygrostern.bsky.social
A reminder that GB News is a prolific spreader of climate disinformation
www.desmog.com/2025/04/28/g...
🔴 NEW 🔴
GB News Owner Paul Marshall Calls for BBC’s Fact-Checking Service to be Shut Down
At a Pharos Foundation event, which Marshall funds, he called for the BBC to be privatised and for BBC Verify to be closed
@desmog.com story with @adambarnett.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/g...
🔴 NEW 🔴
Anti-Net Zero Reform Mayor Andrea Jenkyns Urges Offshore Wind Investment
Two of Farage’s mayors have this week backed clean energy projects, seemingly at odds with the party’s anti-climate stance.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
*Big* scoop from @brigitte-whl.bsky.social and @hazelhealy.bsky.social
22.05.2025 11:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0GB News spewed out almost 1,000 anti-climate attacks in 7 months - that’s like 5 every single day. Climate denial should be a crime in my view - it does enormous harm. At the very least GB News should have some regulatory scrutiny. We don’t need toxic media in our country.
buff.ly/0DUA2yU
🔴 NEW 🔴
GB News Broadcast Almost 1,000 Anti-Climate Attacks Before and After 2024 Election
Concerns have been raised about the channel’s “wild and paranoid conspiracy claims” ahead of May’s local elections.
My report for @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/04/28/g...
One of these "experts"? None other than Richard Tice, one of Reform's window-lickers-in-chief.
And will someone PLEASE explain the concept of *batteries* to these snake oilers saying rEnewAbLeS mAkE yOuR gRiD iNsEcUrE
How anyone can put their byline to this I will never know.
A thousand more reasons for advertisers to steer clear of GB News... www.desmog.com/2025/04/28/g...
28.04.2025 16:26 — 👍 39 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1🔴 NEW 🔴
GB News Broadcast Almost 1,000 Anti-Climate Attacks Before and After 2024 Election
Concerns have been raised about the channel’s “wild and paranoid conspiracy claims” ahead of May’s local elections.
My report for @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/04/28/g...
🔴 NEW 🔴
GB News Broadcast Almost 1,000 Anti-Climate Attacks Before and After 2024 Election
Concerns have been raised about the channel’s “wild and paranoid conspiracy claims” ahead of May’s local elections.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
Tech companies manufacture demand for chatbots and image generation, and then that in turn manufactures demand for coal and gas.
Blistering @desmog.bsky.social piece here detailing this new and disgusting symbiosis
www.desmog.com/2025/04/22/a...
The Heritage Foundation prepares for some more election interference
www.desmog.com/2025/04/14/h...
🔴 Climate Disinformation ‘Normalised’ on French TV and Radio, Report Finds
New findings from an alliance of NGOs challenges the belief that disinformation is confined to social media.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
🔴 NEW 🔴
Group Behind ‘Autocratic’ Trump Agenda Working on Albanian Election
The Heritage Foundation helped to “design” the manifesto of candidate Sali Berisha, who is accused of corruption.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
We know industry and PR firms can undermine peer-reviewed science but it’s rare to get this 🪟 into their tactics 🧵
In a newly seen document, Red Flag boasts of its “remarkable success” framing the landmark Eat-Lancet report as “radical”, “out of touch” & “hypocritical”
Latest @desmog.bsky.social👇
Hilarious to me that oil execs are privately freaking out about the Trump administration's chaos.
@sharonkelly.bsky.social has more in @desmog.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/04/04/o...