Adam Barnett
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Journalist News Reporter at DeSmog, Columns for Big Issue, The Lead & Byline Times Substack: The Definite Article https://linktr.ee/adambarnettwriter
Terrific write-up of the book in @desmog.com today! www.desmog.com/2026/09/21/q...
Q&A: Amy Westervelt on the Corporate Poisoning of the Information Aquifer — and How to Undo the Harm
Amy Westervelt’s new book Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy is a must-read for anyone tracking the machinery of climate denial and delay. The...
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Tactical voting at next election could push Reform into fourth place, poll finds
Tactical voting at next election could push Reform into fourth place, poll finds
Polling suggests Andy Burnham is attracting progressives back to Labour, motivated by desire to stop Nigel Farage • How Labour’s majority depends on five progressive voter types – in charts * UK politics live – latest updates Progressive voters could push Reform UK into fourth place and put Labour within touching distance of a majority if tactical voting is widespread at the next election, a major poll has found. Andy Burnham is beginning to attract a significant number of left-leaning voters back to Labour, motivated by a desire to stop Nigel Farage, the results suggest. Continue reading...
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Reform UK's funding has made headlines this year. But its ties to the UAE have largely flown under the radar. Our new report maps how an oil-rich Gulf state with no elections has built links to Farage et al, and into the wider UK far right, including Tommy Robinson. fairsq.org/petropopulis...
🔴 NEW - UAE Influence on Reform Should be Investigated –Report The Gulf petrostate is forging alliances with radical right-wing parties across the world. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
UAE Influence on Reform Should be Investigated – Report
The ties between Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been described as “extensive and troubling” in a new report. The analysis by FairSquare, a non-profit which researches...
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“Legitimate concerns about immigration”
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d agoReform UK-led council ends support for Show Racism the Red Card
“What’s that? You don’t want to buy my lovely neoliberal policies anymore? Well, what if I wrap it in nationalist resentment?” See also: 1. Wreck economy 2. Blame foreigners 3. Get elected 4. Repeat
With a US Supreme Court case on climate deception looming, the oil company Suncor insists it never denied climate change. But my new @desmog.com story draws on documents showing Suncor helped lead a group in the 90s that spread 'uncertainties' about the science. www.desmog.com/2026/09/21/s...
Suncor Helped Lead Climate Denial Group Spreading ‘Uncertainties’
With a U.S. Supreme Court decision looming on whether the company can be held liable for climate deception, internal documents show a campaign to question science.
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Congrats @desmog.com @geoffdembicki.bsky.social @tjjordan.bsky.social Katie Claire www.desmog.com/2026/09/18/d...
DeSmog Wins Covering Climate Now Awards for Exposing Corporate Denial and Delay
DeSmog and its partners have won three awards for investigations exposing corporate tactics to delay climate action at the 2026 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog’s global ...
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Take a look at the anti-climate smog being pumped out by the British press in a single day. (Via @carbonbrief.org’s excellent daily briefing, which you can subscribe to here: www.carbonbrief.org/newsletters)
5/ In April, Rei Takver explained how the UK state was already set up to enable Reform’s plans to build a British ICE, with Palantir a potential willing partner.. Nigel Farage wants to build a British ICE. Keir Starmer may have handed him the tools www.thenerve.news/p/reform-dep...
Nigel Farage wants to build a British ICE. Keir Starmer may have handed him the tools
Reform’s proposed "Deportation Command” would integrate NHS, police and financial data into a single surveillance database. Meanwhile, Palantir has signalled it won’t stand in their way, and campaigne...
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Nigel Farage leads a political party. He’s a sitting MP. And he hosts his own primetime show on GB News. We believe Ofcom should investigate whether he broke impartiality rules on 15 September 2026. Use our template to write a letter to Ofcom's CEO:
Tell Ofcom's CEO: How can Farage be impartial presenting a programme on party donations? - Best for Britain
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🏆️ DeSmog is delighted to share that our work exposing corporate climate denial and delay has won three of this year's Covering Climate Now Awards. Thank you to all our supporters for making our high-impact work possible! 🙏 buff.ly/qG6sqBe
DeSmog Wins Covering Climate Now Awards for Exposing Corporate Denial and Delay
DeSmog and its partners have won three awards for investigations exposing corporate tactics to delay climate action at the 2026 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog’s global…
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NEW – Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy ✍️ Written by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org and @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/lQVZ8W8
Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy - Carbon Brief
Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has emerged as a major force in UK politics in recent years – pushing…
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Students missed 15 million hours of school time during UK’s June heatwave, study finds - At least 760,000 children in England and Wales missed lessons as more than 1,700 schools affected #climatecrisis @desmog.com www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Pupils missed 15m hours of school time during UK’s June heatwave, study finds
At least 760,000 children in England and Wales missed lessons as more than 1,700 schools closed or finished early
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🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform accepted £5 million from international investors in the second quarter of this year - putting further pressure on the party over its foreign donors. 📝 @desmog.com
Reform Receives £5 Million from International Investors
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK received just shy of £5 million from 17 global financiers and businesspeople in the second quarter of this year, DeSmog can reveal. The party has been embroiled in scandal aft...
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The new Tory shadow chancellor has friends in low places. Story and map for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/09/09/t...
The new Tory shadow chancellor has friends in low places. Story and map for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/09/09/t...
🔴 Tory Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith’s MAGA Network The former Liz Truss ally has been a regular on the pro-Trump speaking circuit. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
Tory Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith’s MAGA Network
The newly appointed Conservative Party shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith has been a regular feature at events linked to Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, DeSmog can report. Griffith has been criticised si...
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He’s moved on to deporting dead foreigners
Sam Wilson@samwilson.bsky.social · 3w agoDamning silence from Labour on their Napoleon III exhumation policy
NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math. less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)
New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
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Good time to read @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social 's profile of James Orr (the sacked Reform advisor) for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/08/j...
James Orr: Reform UK's Religious Cambridge Professor’s Politics of Contradictions
Nigel Farage’s Head of Policy provides a veneer of respectability to a politics that seeks fewer restraints, fewer mediating institutions, and less liberal democracy
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‘Psyops’, ‘Darwinism’ and ‘asinine snowflakery’: How GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwaves - What happened when record temperatures hit the TV stations that regularly deny the #climatecrisis? I took a look ... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
From ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwaves
Thousands of heat-related deaths in record-breaking temperatures appeared to only intensify hosts’ climate denials
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btw www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
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