Phoebe Cooke
@phoebecooke.bsky.social
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Investigative journalist, writing/editing on climate, energy, food, farming and politics. Co-deputy editor at DeSmog UK @desmog.bsky.social | she/her
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· 8d
Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse
This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reve...
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· 27d
Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints
A taxpayers group with close ties to the European People’s Party (EPP) coordinated with Austria’s far-right in the latest escalation of the NGO funding debate, DeSmog can reveal. The Taxpayers Associa...
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· 27d
Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints
A taxpayers group with close ties to the European People’s Party (EPP) coordinated with Austria’s far-right in the latest escalation of the NGO funding debate, DeSmog can reveal. The Taxpayers Associa...
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· Aug 21
Murdoch-Owned TalkRadio Airs Anti-Climate Attacks Six Times a Day
TalkRadio bombarded listeners with false climate claims after England recorded its hottest June on record, DeSmog can report. The channel, which attracts nearly half a million listeners a week, consi...
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· Aug 13
Heatwave: Anti-Climate Reform Politicians Represent Areas at ‘High Risk’ from Extreme Temperatures
Nigel Farage and his fellow Reform UK MPs, many of whom deny basic climate science, represent constituencies exposed to the worst effects of extreme heat, studies show. The UK has this week entered it...
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· Aug 11
UK Government to be Sued in ‘Secret Corporate Court’ by Coal Firm Represented by Tory MP
Keir Starmer’s Labour government is being sued by investors represented by a Conservative MP over court decisions to quash the now abandoned Cumbrian coal mine. West Cumbria Mining (WCM) developers wi...
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· Aug 5
Reform Accused of ‘Cash for Access’ Over £250,000 Champagne Breakfast With Nigel Farage
Reform UK is offering access to Nigel Farage at its party conference for sums ranging from £25,000 to a quarter of a million pounds. The right-wing populist party is advertising for companies to atten...
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Clare Carlile
@clarecarlile.bsky.social
· Jul 24
Staff Shortages Have Forced Major Cuts to Environment Agency Water Quality Monitoring, Internal Documents Reveal
This investigation was published in partnership with Unearthed and the BBC The Environment Agency (EA) has dropped 10,000 water quality tests from its work to ensure the health of England’s rivers and...
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· Jul 30
From Denial to Delay: How the Far-Right is Orchestrating a Climate Backlash in European Parliament
The far-right Patriots for Europe (PfE), currently the third-largest group in the European Parliament, achieved a major victory in July. The group will lead negotiations on the EU’s 2040 climate targe...
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Sam Bright
@writesbright.bsky.social
· Jul 17
‘No Such Thing as a Free Lunch’: Opposition Outcry over Reform’s Secretive DOGE Unit
Councillors in West Northamptonshire last night slammed Reform UK’s plan to access council data as part of its ‘DOGE’ drive to reduce local “fraud and waste”. In a key test of Reform’s battle to acces...
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Anna Pringle
@annapr.bsky.social
· Jul 15
DeSmog
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· Jul 15
How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa
In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon erupt, a curtain slowly parts to reveal a spin...
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Brigitte Wear
@brigitte-whl.bsky.social
· Jul 15
How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa
In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon erupt, a curtain slowly parts to reveal a spin...
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Phoebe Cooke
@phoebecooke.bsky.social
· Jul 15
Investigating Ireland’s Influential Ag Lobby
The Republic of Ireland – often dubbed the Emerald Isle – boasts a global reputation for its grass-based agriculture, exporting 90 percent of its meat and dairy produce to over 100 countries. But the ...
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Phoebe Cooke
@phoebecooke.bsky.social
· Jul 15
INVESTIGATION: Unsupported by govt, Nigerian dairy farmers can't compete with subsidised, cheap EU imports
What makes Nigeria's situation dire is not just the importation of cheap milk substitutes, mainly from Europe, but that Nigerian farmers, unlike their European counterparts, get no government support ...
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