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News Reporter @DeSmog | Columnist @BigIssue @BylineTimes | Views mine | Email: adambarnettwriter at gmail dot com
New York, USA
Joined September 2012
A reminder of the sort of material the Conservative Party was posting a few sweet weeks ago.
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🔴 NEW | Major Donor to Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Owns Russian Assets. Reform gets £100,000 from David Lilley, whose companies own farmland in Russia. By me & @WritesBright .
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Today Rishi Sunak is giving a Very Important Speech about threats to the UK. He chose to give it at Policy Exchange. a think tank funded by ExxonMobil which helped write the UK's anti-protest laws 👀👇..@mrjamesob @PeterKGeoghegan @GeorgeMonbiot.
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This is a test for Keir Starmer. A Labour MP is spreading conspiracy theories about the EHRC process Starmer supports, undermining his efforts on Labour antisemitism. What, if anything, will Starmer do about this?.
Corbyn has described the EHRC, which is investigating Labour antisemitism allegations under Corbyn's leadership, as a body “part of the government machine” whose independence had been “taken away” by the ruling Conservative party
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It's amazing how Owen Jones's principles always line up exactly with his political affiliation.
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NEW: The Sun’s Pro-Fracking Poll was Paid for by Climate Denial Group. The tabloid's coverage this week does not mention that Net Zero Watch, which has just called for renewable energy to be “wound down” completely, was behind the survey. 🧵.
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If only there were some wider, national poll that could measure support for Corbyn.
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🔴NEW | Rishi Sunak Boasts That Oil Funded Think Tank ‘Helped Us Draft’ Crackdown on Climate Protests. The PM praised Policy Exchange, which received $30k from ExxonMobil in 2017, for shaping laws that target green activists. By me & @WritesBright .
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@IanDunt As a schoolboy I once asked a lady at WH Smiths for their graphic novels, meaning comics, and was embarrassed to be shown to their erotica section.
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NEW: Liz Truss Hires Anti-Green Aides With Ties to Libertarian Think Tanks. Green MP @CarolineLucas said climate sceptics and “delayers” should be “nowhere near the prime minister’s top team”. 🧵.
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A graph for the anti-lockdown brigade. Lockdown cut the infection rate.
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NEW: Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Took £135,000 from Climate Science Deniers & Fossil Fuel Interests . All of the anti-net zero party’s funders in 2023 have oil & gas investments or ties to climate science denial. 👀🧵1/.@desmog.
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NEW: GB News producer Ben Leo, who burst into @GreenpeaceUK's office this week after its protest against new oil & gas, has promoted climate science denial. Leo has said “climate change is a scam” & accused climate science body @IPCC_CH of “fear-mongering”. Thread 1/ 🧵
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So the police are trained by Israel and the protesters are paid by Soros. Antisemitism: bringing people together since antiquity.
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Sexism is not the fault of career women who complain about it http://t.co/HYSjIzGOoV
#sexism #LinkedIn
http://t.co/XZICkxl8tr.
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@IanDunt You can see the shit out .of London right now. Never been so clear. It's like .the city is on blu ray. - W. Wordsworth.
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Revealed: The Science Denial Network Behind Oxford’s ‘Climate Lockdown’ Backlash. A traffic filter scheme in Oxfordshire has been “weaponised” by the anti-climate lobby - including a trustee of the Tufton Street think tank GWPF. 🧵.
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Reform UK isn't just "a threat to Rishi Sunak". It's a far-right party with toxic policies. Can we please report on it accordingly?.Receipts:.@BylineTimes @peterjukes.
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Robert Jenrick's campaign to be Conservative Party leader is run by Danny Kruger. a reactionary with links to Tufton Street think tanks, GB News & Jordan Peterson. 👀. I wrote about Kruger for @BylineTimes in Feb👇. @BylineTV.
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NEW: Today on Sky News Kay Burley's breakfast show held a debate about “who is responsible” for 2023's record temperatures. Its guest James Woudhuysen is a former Brexit Party candidate who regularly attacks climate policies as “Stalinist” 👀. Thread 🧵 1/.
👀 hottest year in 125,000 years. Here's both sides of the debate, with @jameswoudhuysen and @ZoeatShine. #KayBurley PO
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Christ isn't his surname, it's his job title (messiah). So saying Jesus Christ is like saying the Prophet Mohammed.
I see that the BBC is back at its ‘Prophet Mohammed’ business when referring to the Charlie Hebdo affair. Because they always refer to the founder of Christianity as ‘Jesus Christ, the Son of God’ whenever he is referred to on the evening news.
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Iran massacred its socialists in the 80s, tortures trade unionists, and (not that anyone cares) helped murder hundreds of thousands in Syria. But its TV station still finds time to shill for a former employee, who is currently leading a major European party.
Former London mayor Ken Livingstone tells Press TV that the Labour defectors will do anything to prevent a socialist government under Jeremy Corbyn #LabourSplit
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On the moral blackmail: if the Tories are re-elected, it won't be the fault of Corbyn's critics, who said he should never have been leader, but of those who insisted on keeping him, and vigorously attacked anyone who wavered as 'pro-Tory' (or in the pay of Israel).
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The IEA lost a complaint to Ofcom last year after LBC's @mrjamesob called it a "hard-right lobby group for vested interests of big business, fossil fuels, tobacco, junk food". Note the "fossil fuels" bit. 8/.
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'Isn't there something pathetic and embarrassing about this emphasis on shade?'. Amid #KamalaHarris fest, treat yourself to this 2008 piece by Christopher Hitchens about Obama and race:.via @thomaschattwill @kenanmalik
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'We were asked to join in alongside the Al Nusra Brigade'. Corbyn lying about #Syria again. This ought to be a massive scandal. But .1. No-one cares about Syria, and 2. Everyone has decided to stop scrutinizing Corbyn, as if he isn't still the leader of Her Maj's opposition.
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@ABarnardNYT Syria's regime is . - an Alawite dynasty .- allied with the Iranian theocracy.- supports Hezbollah.- Assad photo ops at prayer.- blessed by an imam.- children taught to worship Assad as a god.- sent sunni jihadists to Iraq. All very secular.
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Two out of five guests on tonight's @bbcquestiontime are staunch opponents of climate action. - John Redwood has downplayed the role of human-made CO2 emissions in climate change .- Reform UK's Ben Habib wants to "ditch" the UK's net zero target . A quick thread 🧵#QuestionTime
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Boris Johnson is still lying about #Brexit. @FullFact: .1. "Vaccine approval isn’t quicker because of Brexit" .UK could approve emergency vaccines inside EU 2. Most of the trade deals are rolled over from EU days..#BorisJohnson
Happy Independence Day folks! Remember Brexit has already helped deliver all kinds of benefits - from new free trade deals to the fastest vaccine roll out in Europe. We are doing things differently - from genomic editing to regulation of financial services. 🧵1/3.
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NEW: 1 in 3 GB News Hosts Spread Climate Denial On Air in 2022. MP calls for urgent Ofcom action as GB News deploys “Fox News playbook” on climate change. 🧵
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ICYMI: Minister Steve Baker Receives £10k from Chair of Tufton St. Climate Denial Group. Baker is Minister of State for Northern Ireland in Rishi Sunak's government - and a fierce opponent of climate action. 🧵.
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"12 hours to stop Labour from opening Britain's borders".
Illegal migrants are waiting for Labour. 12 hours to stop the Labour supermajority.
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The next time you see IEA people in the media attacking climate policies, it's worth recalling the group's fossil fuel funding & warm relationship with climate science deniers. For more on IEA & climate, see its @DeSmog profile: /ends.
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It's remarkable how Corbynites maintain .1. that 'the establishment' (I.e. capitalism) is terrified of the mighty Corbyn, and 2. that everyone should stop being mean to him, because it's just so unfair. 😥. How can he overthrow capitalism if he can't handle Philip Schofield?.
Has any British TV interviewer angrily demanded "Just say sorry!" to Boris Johnson - over his racism, bigotry and Islamophobia - as Philip Schofield does to Jeremy Corbyn here? #JustAsking.
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🔴NEW: The Telegraph ran a piece on Monday by Craig Mackinlay MP attacking the "net zero zealotry" of the UK govt. 🤔. It does not mention Mackinlay's relevant ties to Tufton St think tank the GWPF & his record of promoting climate denial & fossil fuels. 🏗️. 🧵 Thread 1/ 👀
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Jordan Peterson is still claiming that climate change can't be modelled - this time in the Telegraph. His source for this is a climate denier paid by an oil-funded think tank. (See @DeSmog story 👇). Maybe he should stick to self help books.
Corporations and utopians are offering authoritarian solutions to crises only democracy and free markets can solve. Read Jordan Peterson's exclusive essay here:
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Reform UK is holding another press conference. A good time to read my latest column for @BylineTimes . 'Is the Media Helping Richard Tice Sanitise Far-Right Responses to Immigration?'.#ReformUK #RichardTice.
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@DAaronovitch I interviewed Claudia Webbe last year when covering Islington Council for a local paper. The scale of her self-regard is matched only by the echoing absence of anything to justify it.
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Maybe stop defending the Assad regime and its Iranian and Russian backers who have made millions of Syrians refugees?.#WorldRefugeeDay #Syria.
We must reject the language of hate and division and offer the hand of humanity to those in need. #WorldRefugeeDay
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I watched the Labour leadership hustings so you don't have to. Corbyn was a disaster. Why won’t candidates say so?. My latest column: @NickCohen4 @J_Bloodworth #LabourLeader #JeremyCorbyn
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A note of admiration for the excellent climate journalists covering #COP26 💪🌍. Notable mentions: @joeloyo @LeoHickman @MadeleineCuff @Josh_Gabbatiss @EmmaEHoward @jloistf @daisydunnesci @ChloeFarand @michaelholder @LouiseB_NY @pgreenfielduk @phoeb0 @india_bourke @zakderler 1/.
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The IEA think tank's "mission is to shift the climate of opinion in a free market, liberalising direction", according to outgoing director general Littlewood. The IEA has talked up its influence on government. What is its position on climate policy?.2/.
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"Illegal migrants are waiting for a Labour supermajority".
Illegal migrants are waiting for a Starmer supermajority. Vote Conservative to stop this.
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The Daily Mail reports Lord Frost's speech at the Legatum Institute criticised "the rush to net zero". It does not mention Frost is director of the GWPF, a climate science denial group, or Legatum's ties to fossil fuel interests. A thread 🧵1/.
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Other donors 👇. ‘Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election’.
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BREAKING: Climate protester interrupts Equinor-sponsored New Statesman event. Protester challenged Equinor’s UK Country Manager Alex Grant on the Rosebank oil field. Was removed by security. Full video here 👀👇. #equinor #climate #newstatesman @desmog
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@DeSmog P.S. I forgot to mention: . IEA COO Andy Mayer spoke on a pro-fracking panel at Tory conference last year, organised by the GWFP (Net Zero Watch) and hosted by the openly climate-denying Bruges Group. 👀 👇.
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Biden isn't 'the lesser evil'. People like to talk about anti-racism. In 1995 Biden argued powerfully for lifting arms embargo on Bosnian Muslims so they could defend thenselves against genocide. Have a watch. He speaks with the fire of John Brown.
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The IEA was influential under Liz Truss: . - Truss hired IEA figures critical of climate policies .- IEA backed Truss's mini-budget (cost of living!).- Truss lifted the fracking ban - a policy advocated by IEA. Truss is tipped to make Littlewood a Lord.5/.
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“As British schoolchildren are taught in history lessons, you can’t appease the far-right. But that hasn’t stopped the British government from trying, and they’ve painted themselves into a corner with nowhere else to go.”
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The @IPCC_CH has said it is “unequivocal” that greenhouse gas emissions produced by humans have caused “unprecedented” global warming. Why is @SkyNews @KayBurley hosting “both sides of the debate” on this, instead of climate scientists & energy policy experts? . /end.
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The IEA has consistently opposed UK climate policies, preferring "market solutions". In October, IEA COO Andy Mayer, said the govt. should "get rid of" its net zero target, which he called a "very hard Left, socialist, central-planning model". 4/.
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NEW: Jordan Peterson's source for his claim that climate change cannot be modelled is S Fred Singer. a climate science denier who received money from a think tank funded by oil companies.🧵.#JordanPeterson.
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Climate sceptic MP Steve Baker has received thousands in donations from IEA chair Neil Record. who is also chair of the GWPF's Net Zero Watch campaign, which opposes net zero & backs new fossil fuel extraction. 7/.
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Galloway is poison. But we have all betrayed the memory of Jo Cox. My column on the #BatleyAndSpenByelection >>. .#JoCox #GeorgeGalloway #KeirStarmer @J_Bloodworth @NickCohen4 @IanDunt
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Jeremy Corbyn's conspiracy theory about herd immunity is the latest sign he is still wasting Labour's time, and the country's. How long will Keir Starmer carry this ball and chain? . Read my latest column here: . #Corbyn #Starmer #Labour @WeAreLitMedia
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NEW: Nigel Lawson, Founder of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group, Quits Parliament. Green Party welcomes retirement of “climate denier-in-chief” who founded Global Warming Policy Foundation & sits on Net Zero Watch board. 🧵.
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Grant Shapps likes to draw a line between Labour's donors and its fossil fuel policy. Perhaps someone would like to ask him about this? 🤔.By @WritesBright for @DeSmog.
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A reminder that this LNG claim is false. It's been factchecked by Channel 4 & BBC. But the Energy Secretary keeps saying it, in order to justify new North Sea oil & gas, despite the climate impact. Context & receipts:
A reminder: importing liquefied natural gas has FOUR TIMES the carbon emissions of our own domestically produced gas. This eco-activist wants to make the country poorer and increase emissions. Well done @pritipatel for not responding to this nonsense.
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NEW: Analysis: New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s Links to Climate Science Denial. Truss claims to back net zero, but is pro-fracking & plans to boost North Sea oil extraction. Here's a look at her ties to libertarian groups opposed to climate action. 👀👇.
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The IEA has backed climate sceptic politicians. Steve Baker was trustee of the climate-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation & led the Net Zero Scrutiny Group. He told an IEA 2021 event much climate science is "contestable" and "propagandised". 6/.
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NEW: The Telegraph ran a poll on its front page yesterday finding public support for a referendum on net zero policies. It was paid for by a new climate science denial group run by a leading figure in actor Laurence Fox’s Covid-sceptic party. Thread 1/.
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Instead of babbling about fascism at the sight of their own national flag, left-wing Labour supporters might want to ask themselves why voters think Labour doesn't like the country it seeks to govern. @J_Bloodworth is typically good on this:.#Starmer.
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UK broadcasters should study this interview on New Zealand TV. It's a great example of how to ask pointed questions without making it about you or losing control. (Via @OliviaFranceska ).
Jami-Lee Ross is out of Parliament after Saturday's election results The Advance NZ co-leader joined @TovaOBrien on @NewshubNationNZ and was asked if he has any regrets - see the full interview unfold. #Decision20
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🔴NEW: The Climate Denial Network Behind ‘Classic Astroturf’ Farmers’ Campaign. 'No Farmers, No Food' claims to represent farmers. But it's run by an anti-net zero PR exec & boosted by GB News & Jordan Peterson. 👀. By @ClareCarlile, Me & @CookePhoebe .👇.
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GB News is a major source of climate misinformation. In March, @DeSmog revealed that 1 in 3 GB News hosts spread climate science denial on air in 2022, while nearly half attacked climate policies, including net zero. 7/.
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Labour staff sacked for industrial action are now being replaced, presumably by more compliant workers. I note that J. Corbyn, S. Milne, A. Murray & co. still have jobs. Great reporting as ever by @HannahAlOthman.
EXC: Labour staff who were told their contracts wouldn't be renewed during the election campaign were bringing a complaint to the party about their working conditions, via trade unions. Labour said the decision was financial, but is now recruiting again.
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Jordan Peterson's 'argument' aside, he cites as experts: . - Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ's climate bamboozler.- Marian Tupy of Cato Institute, funded by big oil (Koch Industries & Exxon).- Matt Ridley, advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation. All in here:
Jordan Peterson is still claiming that climate change can't be modelled - this time in the Telegraph. His source for this is a climate denier paid by an oil-funded think tank. (See @DeSmog story 👇). Maybe he should stick to self help books.
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@BylineTimes When Reform UK attacks net zero, remember its record of climate denial & its fossil fuel donors. See Reform's @DeSmog profile:
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Where's an 'ethical' place to order books online? (i.e. not Amazon).
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Corbynism is an ex-movement. It has ceased to be. If they hadn't nailed it to the party it would be pushing up the daisies. My take on the election: #JeremyCorbyn #Labour @hugorifkind @MichaelPDeacon @NickCohen4 @MarinaHyde
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@sturdyAlex 'Rishi Sunak Boasts That Oil Funded Think Tank ‘Helped Us Draft’ Crackdown on Climate Protests'
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Questions not asked at today’s Reform UK press conference, from my @BylineTimes column 👀👇. #ReformUK
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Salma Yaqoob’s 'apology' article in @LabourList proves the naysayers wrong - she’s the perfect candidate for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. My latest column: #Labour #SalmaYaqoob #JeremyCorbyn #Antisemitism @NickCohen4 @J_Bloodworth
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Times admits ‘Labour’s £1000 tax on families’ story was completely wrong http://t.co/Kkg2ZxoidA
@pollytoynbee #GE15
http://t.co/0AXEV4xQwd.
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🔴Reform Party Accepts £10k Donation from Disgraced Financier Crispin Odey. The Electoral Commission said it would consider enforcement action after the anti-net zero party inaccurately reported a different name on the donation. Me & @WritesBright .👀👇.
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@NickCohen4 @twlldun @charlesarthur We can't do anything until we solve the Marr-Morrissey dispute, which is the cause of all the problems in the region.
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If opposing net zero is not motivated by climate science denial, then why do so many net zero critics deny climate science?. Follow me and @DeSmog for more on the forces attacking climate action. /end.
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Iranian protesters opt for ‘escalation’ and the end of the Khomeinist regime. Why won’t the Left support them?. My latest: #LabourLeadership #IranProtest2020 #Corbyn #sulaimani @NickCohen4
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Left: It's not enough to not be racist. You must be actively anti-racist. *Labour kicks out famous racist*. Left: no not like that.
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NEW: Gas Companies Accused of Using Hydrogen to ‘Greenwash’ Boilers. New @Global_Witness report finds gas boiler companies are marketing ‘hydrogen-ready’ boilers as climate-friendly, which experts say could ‘deceive consumers’. 🧵.
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PSA: Meet Richard Tice, leader of Reform UK. You might have seen him on @bbclaurak & @SkyNews this week talking migration. While he claims to care about ordinary people, Tice is a climate science denier funded by donors with business interests in fossil fuels. 👀👇.🧵1/.
CO2 isn't a poison. It's plant food! We need to challenge the climate change nonsense!.#ticetake #climatechange #co2 #plantfood
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The Telegraph quotes “three Conservative MPs associated with the Net Zero Scrutiny Group” about green levies. It doesn't mention the NZSG works hand in glove with the UK's main climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation. 🧵1/.
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Spare us the Christmas piety: . Syrians are being killed and no-one cares. My latest column: @NickCohen4 @Qunfuz1 @OzKaterji @_EmmaGH @J_Bloodworth #Syria
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NEW: Nigel Lawson's toxic legacy. How Thatcher's chancellor made climate denial a Tory value. New piece by me for @theleaduk featuring @tessakhan & @jkingy. #Climate #NigelLawson #TuftonStreet #NetZero @DeSmog.
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With Mendoza booted off Twitter (& Ian Lavery and Howard Beckett singing her praises), here's a piece I wrote about The Canary in 2018: .
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More media smears about Corbyn having a pash for socialist dictatorship.
I recently spoke on how despite the illegal U.S. economic blockade, Cuba has shown international health solidarity to 30+ countries during this pandemic. Join the call on the British government to make urgent representations to Trump to lift the blockade 👉
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Here's my story on today's #ExtinctionRebellion protest for @DeSmogBlog : . Extinction Rebellion Blockade Central London Street to Kick Off Fortnight of Protests.
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Vaccine.Vaccine.Vaccine.Vac-CIIIIINE.
Dolly Parton partly funded Moderna Covid vaccine research
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Woudhuysen is a consultant with a physics degree. He regularly writes about climate & energy for libertarian outlet Spiked. From 2015-18 Spiked received $300k from Charles Koch Foundation, arm of oil giant Koch Industries & a major climate denial funder 2/.
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🔴 NEW | Prospective GB News Board Member is Fossil Fuel Investor . Lord Agnew is a shareholder in Equinor, the Norwegian oil & gas firm behind the ‘carbon bomb’ Rosebank oil field. By me & @WritesBright 👀👇.
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