Sam Bright
@writesbright.bsky.social
Investigative journalist, author, and Yorkshireman. DeSmog’s UK deputy editor. writesbright.substack.com
🔴 NEW 🔴 Campaigners are now demanding a parliamentary investigation into Reform MP Sarah Pochin following a donation to her office by food industry millionaires. 📝 @desmog.com & @goodlawproject.org report 👇🏻
Investigate Reform MP Over Donation, Campaigners Demand
Sarah Pochin, Reform UK MP for Runcorn and Helsby, is facing pressure over a £5,000 donation from food industry millionaires that stand to benefit from her campaigning. According to an investigation ...
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Trump and MAGA seem determined to drag the US back to the 17th century.
Sam Bright@writesbright.bsky.social · 3d ago🔴 MAGA’s harassment of Fauci is a medieval witch hunt driven by scientifically illiterate bullies desperate to feed the mob. Any country that believes in modern medicine, vaccines, and reason should stand with Fauci against this tirade of ignorance
🔴 MAGA’s harassment of Fauci is a medieval witch hunt driven by scientifically illiterate bullies desperate to feed the mob. Any country that believes in modern medicine, vaccines, and reason should stand with Fauci against this tirade of ignorance
The UK should offer political asylum to Fauci
Notes on a nauseating show trial...
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Can I say (and not just because I’m one of the editors) - @desmog.com has been on the right side of history on climate change for decades, taking on significant legal risk to expose Big Oil’s allies. And we’re gonna keep on doing it.
Burnham needs to realise that the unions may undermine his political project. Here’s why 👇🏻
Burnham’s trade union conundrum
A major headache for the new PM...
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Can I say (and not just because I’m one of the editors) - @desmog.com has been on the right side of history on climate change for decades, taking on significant legal risk to expose Big Oil’s allies. And we’re gonna keep on doing it.
RW media: angry about foreign criminals; also angry at a scheme that encourages them to leave the country early, probably saving money overall
Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️🌈🇫🇷@terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 5d agoClassic rage-baiting framing. "Labour paid £6.5m to foreign criminals" leaves out the key facts: it’s the Facilitated Return Scheme, run by Tories for 14 yrs & Blair before that. Saves £45k/yr per inmate. #MediaBias #FactCheck #UKPolitics #JournalismMatters www.dailymail.com/news/article...
Burnham needs to realise that the unions may undermine his political project. Here’s why 👇🏻
Burnham’s trade union conundrum
A major headache for the new PM...
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Funny (but also not at all funny) how Farage and Badenoch claim to be “patriots” all while pursuing policies that make it more likely for our country to be *set on fire*
“It takes a unique type of person – and one that I don’t want to be in charge of the country – to drink their own Kool-Aid to the point of hallucinatory intoxication.”
Sam Bright@writesbright.bsky.social · last wk.I decided to write (rant) about this 👇🏻
🔴 NEW - Meet the aristocrats helping to fund Reform “Posh George” isn’t the only toff paying for Farage’s “anti-establishment” operation. 📝 @mc00.bsky.social for @desmog.com
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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“Not all of Reform’s donors are aristocrats, but even those lacking old money or a peerage have a habit of engaging in aristocratic hobbies”. Phenomenal reporting from @mc00.bsky.social
Sam Bright@writesbright.bsky.social · last wk.🔴 NEW - Meet the aristocrats helping to fund Reform “Posh George” isn’t the only toff paying for Farage’s “anti-establishment” operation. 📝 @mc00.bsky.social for @desmog.com
🔴 NEW - Meet the aristocrats helping to fund Reform “Posh George” isn’t the only toff paying for Farage’s “anti-establishment” operation. 📝 @mc00.bsky.social for @desmog.com
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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Farage has said he thinks it’s “absolutely nuts” for CO2 to be considered a pollutant, while Badenoch says candidates aren’t welcome in the Conservative Party that support net zero. Leaders of the civilisational collapse cult.
Data centres in the US are predicted to consume 25% of ALL US electricity by the mid 2030s. And require the water used by 10m US households each year. Utterly unsustainable.
Farage has said he thinks it’s “absolutely nuts” for CO2 to be considered a pollutant, while Badenoch says candidates aren’t welcome in the Conservative Party that support net zero. Leaders of the civilisational collapse cult.
Sam @writesbright.bsky.social is doing a fantastic h=job exposing Farage for what he is. Have a read of his latest column and then look back through the others - Sam is relentless! writesbright.substack.com/p/farage-big...
Farage’s biggest enemy: himself
More evidence against the Reform leader, your honour...
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You probably won't be surprised to learn that the Daily Telegraph and GB News have totally mangled a new study... ...and their mangling has then been gleefully amplified by rightwing influencers including Reform MP Richard Tice. 🫠 Here's our new factcheck... www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no...
Factcheck: No, Europe’s heatwaves are not being ‘caused’ by declining air pollution - Carbon Brief
Scientists tell Carbon Brief that the framing of heatwaves being “caused” by declining air pollution is “wrong”.
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Eyebrow-raising anecdote from this insightful piece from @peterkellner.bsky.social: more than half of people aged 65+ think they contribute more in taxes than they receive in benefits (including NHS and state pensions). Only 14% think they receive more than they contribute
Burnham’s biggest problem: ungrateful voters
Few of us believe we benefit from our contract with the state
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Westminster’s snobby, dismissive response to No10 North and Burnham’s regional redistribution agenda ironically shows exactly why it’s needed
As an aside, a man in his 60s describing himself as an ‘influencer’ should be laughed all the way back to the golf-club bar where he belongs.
Sam Bright@writesbright.bsky.social · 2w ago🔴 NEW - Farage claims he didn’t have to register the gifts from Harborne and Cottrell because, before June 2024, he was an “influencer and broadcaster” not a politician. Yet that claim is disproven by Farage’s own parliamentary filings…
🔴 NEW - Farage claims he didn’t have to register the gifts from Harborne and Cottrell because, before June 2024, he was an “influencer and broadcaster” not a politician. Yet that claim is disproven by Farage’s own parliamentary filings…
Farage’s biggest enemy: himself
More evidence against the Reform leader, your honour...
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What Westminster gets totally wrong about Burnham’s regional rebalancing agenda…
Andy Burnham is pro-London
Seriously!
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What Westminster gets totally wrong about Burnham’s regional rebalancing agenda…
Andy Burnham is pro-London
Seriously!
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As always, people with nothing to hide don’t mess up in the consistency of their answers. People making it up as they go tend to have a consistency problem. Guess which group Farage belongs to…. bsky.app/profile/writ...
Sam Bright@writesbright.bsky.social · 2w ago🔴 Farage went on Triggonometry and lied about his donor gifts He can’t even keep track of his own cash anymore
🔴 Farage went on Triggonometry and lied about his donor gifts He can’t even keep track of his own cash anymore
Farage just lied about his ‘Posh George’ gifts
And I can prove it...
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Farage still lying, this time about donor gifts on a major podcast. He claims George Cottrell hasn’t given him any gifts or donations since he was elected to Parliament in July 2024 however declaration of interests shows he has received gifts worth £15,276.72 Article by @writesbright.bsky.social
Farage just lied about his ‘Posh George’ gifts
And I can prove it...
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