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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."

02.06.2025 16:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 989    ๐Ÿ” 429    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 45
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Rightwing media falsely blame Ed Miliband for UK steel crisis, experts say Net zero and clean energy can actually help save the steel industry, experts point out

I've been a journalist for 25+ years and I'm not sure I've witnessed as much wilful (and v likely coordinated) disinformation from certain corners of the UK media than over past few days. Sun, Mail and Telegraph have been truly awful - and seemingly shameless

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

14.04.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 688    ๐Ÿ” 323    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51    ๐Ÿ“Œ 27
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Muskrat's gonna love this one.

03.03.2025 15:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8375    ๐Ÿ” 1983    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 135    ๐Ÿ“Œ 78

Every single one of the Trump supporters sounds like a domestic abuser. "You should've let him hit you, you shouldn't have complained in public, you're never grateful, you never say thank you."

01.03.2025 07:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3900    ๐Ÿ” 788    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 90    ๐Ÿ“Œ 35

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyyโ€™s face after he saw Russiaโ€™s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

28.02.2025 18:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25457    ๐Ÿ” 6217    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 232    ๐Ÿ“Œ 202

Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.

โ€”W.H. Auden

28.02.2025 21:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Word of the day is โ€˜huff-snuffโ€™ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

28.02.2025 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8397    ๐Ÿ” 2488    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 200    ๐Ÿ“Œ 187

Iโ€™m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vanceโ€™s speech. OK: In Vance English โ€œfree speechโ€ means โ€œLet Musk run your electionsโ€ and โ€œdemocracyโ€ means โ€œlet Russia run your elections.โ€ Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

15.02.2025 22:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17008    ๐Ÿ” 5505    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 306    ๐Ÿ“Œ 319
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The lies are the point The Ukraine war has never been entirely military, or even territorial. It is epistemic.

Ukraine represents truth. Russia represents lies. Every time we speak the truth, we support the war effort. Every time we reject lies, we help defeat the enemy.

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

21.02.2025 14:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 680    ๐Ÿ” 170    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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Every accusation this irredeemable piece of human garbage makes is projection. Every single one.

www.dw.com/en/ukraine-u...

19.02.2025 17:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 49    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Best comment on this Iโ€™ve seen so far is โ€œrapist says Ukraine shouldnโ€™t have worn such a short skirt.โ€

19.02.2025 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 62    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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If youโ€™d asked AI to write a piece of Russian propaganda in the style of Donald Trump, this is what youโ€™d get. Well done America, youโ€™ve elected a Russian asset as your President.

19.02.2025 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1355    ๐Ÿ” 365    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 44    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21

A Trump shill on Newsnight claims there are more people in prison in UK jails for freedom of speech violations than in Putinโ€™s Russia.

These people are radicalised, insane, plain stupid or some combination of all three.

18.02.2025 22:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2844    ๐Ÿ” 568    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 190    ๐Ÿ“Œ 35

Putin insisting on elections in another country, when he hasnโ€™t had anything approaching a fair election in his own country in years. Yet more irony atop of irony. He has a long track record of interfering and manipulating elections to get an outcome he wants, in foreign countries and his own.

18.02.2025 21:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 727    ๐Ÿ” 98    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Victoria Derbyshire slams Trump's senior director for counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka on #Newsnight. He can't handle it.

SG: "We stand with any nation that wishes to implement its sovereignty & which shares our values."

VD: "But not the women killed in the maternity hospital in southern Ukraine?"

13.02.2025 11:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 473    ๐Ÿ” 150    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 60    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23

Burger-eating surrender monkeys.

12.02.2025 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump says he has spoken to Putin and agreed to negotiate Ukraine ceasefire US president says he called Russian leader and agreed to have teams start negotiations immediately

Trump says he will begin negotiations with Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Any "deal" will be scripted by Moscow: Russia keeps territory it has stolen, no Nato membership for Kyiv, US military assistance ends. In short, a recipe for betrayal and further war www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

12.02.2025 17:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 127    ๐Ÿ” 65    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19
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12.02.2025 18:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 65    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We revealed Nigel Farageโ€™s voting record to his constituents in Clacton.

They werenโ€™t happy.

10.02.2025 11:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1003    ๐Ÿ” 485    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 147    ๐Ÿ“Œ 150

We need to banish the phrase "claimed without evidence" from journalism. Because 100% of the time it means "This public figure told this lie, but my news organization's conventions prevent me from saying it's a lie, even though it's an obvious lie."

Calling a lie a lie ought to be the convention.

10.02.2025 17:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1194    ๐Ÿ” 278    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

โ€œYou realise youโ€™ll go down in history as Americaโ€™s worst ever President?โ€

โ€œYou think thereโ€™ll be historians any more?โ€™

05.02.2025 03:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 122    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Between the tariffs, the idiotic threats to Canadian and Danish sovereignty, the destruction of USAID, and the undermining of NATO, it's hard to see what the Trump administration would have done differently in their first 2 weeks if their aim were to destroy US power and global influence.

02.02.2025 17:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 555    ๐Ÿ” 151    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

02.02.2025 18:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10969    ๐Ÿ” 5236    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 340    ๐Ÿ“Œ 737

Was just disinvited by @bbc5live.bsky.social to a discussion of Brexit 5 years on- on the entirely reasonable/correct grounds that I know what I am talking about and would give an expert, objective view.

What they actually wanted was a "hard Remainer" (to balance a know-nothing Brexiteer).

FFS.

30.01.2025 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1535    ๐Ÿ” 407    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 79    ๐Ÿ“Œ 41
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Unravelling Westminsterโ€™s secret influence network | HOPE not hate An ex-Tory aide linked to race science has created a group of political allies to craft policy in the shadows

๐Ÿ’ฅ NEW: Disgraced former government advisor Andrew Sabisky - who quit in a 2020 race science scandal - has built a hidden network of 60 Tory researchers, think tank staffers, and journalists to continue pushing politics in a more radical direction.

investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/andrew-sabis...

29.01.2025 09:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 96    ๐Ÿ” 78    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

After building a career pushing anti-vax views, Robert Kennedy said today (at his confirmation hearings) that all **his kids are vaccinated**. Donโ€™t look at what he says (anti-vax is a lucrative position)- look at what he does.

29.01.2025 16:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 128    ๐Ÿ” 46    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Picture of the Tesla gigafactory in Berlin with Elon Musk projected and the words Heil Tesla

Picture of the Tesla gigafactory in Berlin with Elon Musk projected and the words Heil Tesla

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

(Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

22.01.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11435    ๐Ÿ” 3902    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 284    ๐Ÿ“Œ 398

This is so inspirational. Saying the words to his actual face

22.01.2025 08:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1786    ๐Ÿ” 342    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 69    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

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