Hazel Healy
@hazelhealy.bsky.social
UK Editor in Chief at DeSmog. Investigations into climate and food politics.
Chuffed to be finalists for Helen Darbishire Award, for my @desmog.com investigation w/ @brigitte-whl.bsky.social revealing dark side of supermarket seabass supply chain. www.theguardian.com/environment/... www.access-info.org/2026-10-05/f...
The hidden cost of your supermarket sea bass
Revealed: an investigation shows how consumers buying fish in the UK are playing a role in food insecurity and unemployment in Senegal
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Another cracker from @mc00.bsky.social Farage has described his re-election contest as “the people versus the establishment”. Yet Reform has been bankrolled by aristocrats, peers, and owners of swanky private members’ clubs, as well as crypto and fossil barons...👇 www.desmog.com/2026/07/28/m...
Meet the Aristocrats Helping to Fund Reform
On 7 June, Nigel Farage announced that he was resigning as the MP for Clacton amid the political furore caused by his £5 million undeclared gift from crypto billionaire and major Reform UK donor Chris...
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HUGE thanks to Simen Sætre, @hazelhealy.bsky.social, @brigitte-whl.bsky.social, Dr Aliou Ba, and María Alonso Martínez for being guests on our show this week! Find out more about the Edible Empire podcast at The Salmon and the Tomato website: www.thesalmonandthetomato.org.
The Salmon and the Tomato – Explore Where Your Food Comes From
The Salmon and the Tomato - a story about where our food comes from and who pays the costs of its production
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A huge undertaking from @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @desmog.com Who wants what from Ireland as its takes up the reins of European Council? The Republic's history of caving into the dairy lobby has campaigners worried about climate and nature protection... www.desmog.com/2026/07/14/c...
Can Ireland Deliver as ‘Honest Broker’? Here’s What’s at Stake for Climate and Nature in EU Council Presidency
Environmental campaigners are urging Ireland to protect the public interest and resist industry pressure as the country takes up the presidency of the EU Council. The EU’s top agricultural polluter to...
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Another timely piece from the amazing @desmog.com team. @mc00.bsky.social @writesbright.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/07/14/m...
Major Reform Donors Featured in Tax Haven Database
More than half (57 percent) of the donations to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK since the 2024 general election have been from individuals featured in a major tax haven database, DeSmog can report. These 12 ...
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NYC climate folks and journalists, Rei from DeSmog here - I'd love to meet you! I've just arrived from the UK to start my ovarian cancer treatment - there's lots to hope for. I'm new in NY, and would love to meet people and enjoy this city. Or get recs! Happy to get comments on this :). Cheers!
🔴 NEW - Nigel Farage has accepted £2 million since becoming an MP @desmog.com’s analysis, published by The Guardian, shows that the Reform leader has raked in millions on top of the £5 million handed to him by Harborne
Nigel Farage’s income since being elected MP has hit £2m, analysis shows
Reform UK leader has registered wide range of financial interests on top of his Commons salary since July 2024
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The UAE’s ruling royal family banked more than €71 million in EU farming subsidies. Farms in Romania, Spain and Italy controlled by the Abu Dhabi royals grow crops destined for export to the Gulf. ✏️ Latest for @desmog.com @theguardian.com @eldiario.es G4Media www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
"Reform's oily donations include £22 million from Thailand-based cryto billionaire Christopher Harborne, whose company AML Global sells jet fuel" (lest we forget)
Adam Barnett@adambarnett.bsky.social · 5mo ago🔴 NEW - Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests Nigel Farage’s anti-climate party has received two thirds of its income from oil investors. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r... @desmog.com
Senior execs, directors, and major investors from the world’s largest fertiliser and grain companies have sold shares worth over £49 mn during Iran war @clarecarlile.bsky.social has revealed. Profits come as UN WFP warns 45mn more people forced into “acute hunger”. www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/f...
Fertiliser and Grain Bosses Bank $66 Million Selling Shares During Iran War
Senior executives, directors, and major investors from the world’s largest fertiliser and grain companies have sold shares worth more than $66 million (£49 million) during price hikes linked to the Ir...
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Amazing scoop from @cecile.bsky.social with edits by @phoebecooke.bsky.social. Read on to see a classic gas lobby tactic to slow the clean transition, in action…
DeSmog@desmog.com · 6mo ago🔴 NEW - French PR Executive Behind Facebook Network Spreading Heat Pump Hate A web of inauthentic accounts compare clean heating technology to a 'lawn mower' and brand installers 'environmental fraudsters' and ‘swindlers' 📝 Cécile Marchand www.desmog.com/2026/04/23/f...
🔴 NEW - Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions Live tracker of the Reform leader’s personal income. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is the highest-paid Member of Parliament. In less than two years as the MP for Clacton, Farage has racked up £2 million in personal income and gifts, on top of his £94,00...
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A new scoop from @writesbright.bsky.social for @desmog.com with The Mirror 👇 The £675K pocketed by Farage from foreign governments, companies & donors dwarfs his public salary. For me, this begs the question, Farage is Minister of Parliament for... who exactly? www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...
Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal. Since July 2024, when he was elect...
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It's a wild wild world... @desmog.com's @joeygrostern.bsky.social invites you into the Sri Lankan network pumping out ai-slop to rage bait Brits on energy and call for more drilling in the North Sea. www.desmog.com/2026/04/17/s... (Infact North Sea oil & gas would displace max 3% of imports)
Which poses the bigger question... did Reform lie about Goodwin's relationship with a state-funded pro-Orbán group?
Did Reform lie about Goodwin’s Orbán funding?
Plus – I fixed the PoliticsJoe link...
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Influential figures in the UK are using the war-on-Iran induced energy shock to call for (checks notes) *more reliance on oil & gas. Many have close ties to the fossil industry, or to groups that deny basic climate science. @writesbright.bsky.social has more👇 www.desmog.com/2026/04/01/t...
The Vested Interests Lobbying for North Sea Oil and Gas Expansion
In the wake of the fossil fuel crisis created by Donald Trump’s war in Iran, a host of influential figures and groups in the UK have been calling not for the rapid rollout of renewable energy, but a g...
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🔴 NEW - Energy Firms Dodge £1 Billion Debt Relief Bill After Corporate Lobbying Ofgem has rejected calls for household energy debts to be paid off using excess profits.
Energy Firms Dodge £1 Billion Debt Relief Bill After Corporate Lobbying
Ofgem has rejected calls from MPs to force energy companies to write off £1 billion of customer debt after intense energy industry lobbying, DeSmog can reveal. In October, MPs sitting on the Energy Se...
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🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform’s policy chief James Orr last weekend shared a stage with a white nationalist politician whose immigration policy is “if you’re black, go back.” 📝 @desmog.com 👇
Reform Policy Chief James Orr Shared Stage With White Nationalist
Reform UK’s head of policy James Orr spoke alongside a white nationalist politician at a conference in Hungary last weekend (21 March), DeSmog can reveal. Orr made an appearance at CPAC Hungary, a pol...
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🚨 NEW 🚨 How the ‘Galapagos of West Africa’ was Plundered by Floating Fishmeal Factories www.desmog.com/2026/03/08/h... 📝 @damancini.bsky.social With @desmog.com in collaboration with @theguardian.com
How the ‘Galapagos of West Africa’ was Plundered by Floating Fishmeal Factories
The only ice factory in Bubaque is out of service. Local fishermen, like Pedro Luis Pereira, are forced to source ice from factories on the mainland in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, some 70 kilometres a...
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"Gregory Bovino... to return to former job as a chief patrol agent along California’s US-Mexico border"... says a source. Er, so, you can oversee the extra-judicial killings of 2 people and violent attacks on migrant communities and... go back to your old job?? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Border Patrol commander to leave Minneapolis after shooting of Alex Pretti
Gregory Bovino, an aggressive promoter of Trump’s deportation agenda, said to have been stripped of ‘commander at large’ title
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With the tragic news of another civilian murdered by US para-state forces this w/e came a timely reminder of the company that Farage keeps... @writesbright.bsky.social's piece for @desmog.com & The Mirror, totted up the bill for Farage's recent flights to see Trump. British public, forewarned.
Mikey Smith@mikeysmith.com · 9mo agoNigel Farage racks up £151,000 in donor-funded flights to support Donald Trump www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Excited to chair this session at #ORFC26 today for @desmog.com Starting at 2pm! ⏰ Under Surveillance: Uncovering Big Ag’s Dirty Tactics with @clarecarlile.bsky.social @donstaniford.bsky.social @annalappe.bsky.social 👀👀👀 orfc.org.uk/session/unde... Tickets at👇 orfc.org.uk/book-orfc-2026-tickets
🔴 NEW 🔴 The world’s largest salmon producer Mowi stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its “polluting, smelly and invasive” fish farms, say local residents and fishers, in what used to be “pristine” Highlands lochs. with @desmog.com
COP30 has delivered less than hoped for & less than what is needed. But one light in the darkness is the recognition of the need for ‘information integrity’. The fight for a safe climate has the fight against disinformation at his heart, and now, its rightful place in the treaty text.
NEW: > 300 lobbyists representing industrial agriculture have attended this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation 1/ 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/m...
More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30
Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
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Don't know your #Abag from your #Abiec? @desmog.com can help you navigate the #AgroLobby at #COP30... We profiled #Brazil's 3 most influential meat industry trade groups: CNA, ABIEC & ABAG Learn more in @rachelsherrington.bsky.social's map of food & farm lobby 👉 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...
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Next time you hear energy-hungry big tech claiming to be the solution to climate change, remember Nvidia was in Brazil pushing technology to aid oil and gas exploration … on the eve of COP30
Sam Bright@writesbright.bsky.social · 11mo ago🔴 NEW - Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, flogged its tech to the oil industry in Brazil on the eve of the COP30 summit 📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
Get up to speed on big beef’s arguments, which it will use to slow climate action at COP30 👇 By me & @rachelsherrington.bsky.social Feat. a cow in a Carmen Miranda headdress (coz no matter how you dress it up, this much cattle is not compatible with a safe climate) www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/b...
Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30
Food and farming companies will claim agriculture is the solution to the climate crisis at the Brazil summit — even though the sector drives a third of global warming.
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