News Reporter at DeSmog, Columnist at Big Issue & Byline Times
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I’m an investigative reporter at DeSmog & a politics columnist at the Big Issue. I write features for Byline Times & items for Private Eye
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I’m based in New York 🗽
It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…
–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more
Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast
www.carbonbrief.org/...
It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…
–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more
Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Glasman was a keynote speaker at an event hosted by Together, whose leader has accused Keir Starmer of “destroying Britain”.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
Glasman was a keynote speaker at an event hosted by Together, whose leader has accused Keir Starmer of “destroying Britain”.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30
Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/m...
📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @ninalakhani.bsky.social 👇
More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30
Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/m...
📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @ninalakhani.bsky.social 👇
U.S. Oil Executives Flock to COP30
Access by major polluters ExxonMobil and Chevron to the summit is proof that Big Oil still holds “a dangerous sway” over the climate process, campaigners say.
📝 @phoebecooke.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/11/14/u...
U.S. Oil Executives Flock to COP30
Access by major polluters ExxonMobil and Chevron to the summit is proof that Big Oil still holds “a dangerous sway” over the climate process, campaigners say.
📝 @phoebecooke.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/11/14/u...
Politics as spectacle and outrage as a business model, @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social looks at how the Reform UK leader has been given a free pass by Britain's news organisations
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/how-nigel-...
Politics as spectacle and outrage as a business model, @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social looks at how the Reform UK leader has been given a free pass by Britain's news organisations
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/how-nigel-...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
@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...
@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...
Revelations come as industry expected to gather at this year’s #COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil
📝 Latest from @clarecarlile.bsky.social👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/r...
Revelations come as industry expected to gather at this year’s #COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil
📝 Latest from @clarecarlile.bsky.social👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/r...
The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
The former Brexit negotiator runs an “educational” charity while denying climate facts.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
The former Brexit negotiator runs an “educational” charity while denying climate facts.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
My reporting today @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
My reporting today @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data.
✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data.
✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
My analysis @politicshome.bsky.social has found Reform has lost more than 5% of the cllrs it elected just 6 months ago
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
He's also been hanging out with Farage's anti-abortion advisors and is still a director of the UK's leading climate science denial group - run by a Tory peer.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
He's also been hanging out with Farage's anti-abortion advisors and is still a director of the UK's leading climate science denial group - run by a Tory peer.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
Nigel Farage’s climate denial agenda has been pilfered by Kemi Badenoch’s party
Nigel Farage’s climate denial agenda has been pilfered by Kemi Badenoch’s party
👇
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...
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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...
GB News (£500,000 to date)
Telegraph (£48,000 per month)
More here 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/07/15/w... @ledbydonkeys.org
GB News (£500,000 to date)
Telegraph (£48,000 per month)
More here 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/07/15/w... @ledbydonkeys.org
It would make a very useful op-ed or feature if @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social would write it up…
Note: 1. Jenrick/Farage use the same old rhetorical tricks
2. Powell was denounced. Where are Labour/Tories/media?
Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
It would make a very useful op-ed or feature if @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social would write it up…
Note: 1. Jenrick/Farage use the same old rhetorical tricks
2. Powell was denounced. Where are Labour/Tories/media?
Opaque funds are masking donations to political causes at home and abroad.
Me, for @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/10/15/h...
Opaque funds are masking donations to political causes at home and abroad.
Me, for @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/10/15/h...
A media CEO who helped to stage an event with Reform’s main U.S. ally has publicly denounced the party’s leader.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social
A media CEO who helped to stage an event with Reform’s main U.S. ally has publicly denounced the party’s leader.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social
A majority of GB News, ITV & BBC viewers think net migration is increasing…
… when it has actually dropped by half. 🥸
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...
A majority of GB News, ITV & BBC viewers think net migration is increasing…
… when it has actually dropped by half. 🥸
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...