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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage received freebies worth £10,000 from the Abu Dhabi government, new records show. Farage’s latest register of interests shows that he accepted flights and accommodation to attend the Abu Dhabi Formula 1 Grand Prix in December, paid for by the regime that runs the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). […]

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The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and 2005, DeSmog can reveal. Archive records seen by DeSmog show that the group, which has campaigned for more fossil fuel extraction and against government climate action, […]

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Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. Young is being interviewed by Mathias Corvinus Collegium’s “Center for Journalism” in Budapest, Hungary, about censorship in the UK. Entitled “when a tweet can land you in jail”, the […]

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High-profile Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman was one of the keynote speakers at the annual conference of the Together Declaration, a conspiracy theory group with ties to Reform UK. Together held its fourth anniversary event on 16 November, which featured prominent Reform councillor Laila Cunningham, and former Brexit Party politician Alexandra Phillips. Together, which also […]

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The UK government is running its events at the flagship COP30 climate summit in partnership with a major supplier to the fossil fuel industry, DeSmog can reveal. For the second year running, the UK pavilion is being sponsored by AVEVA, an industrial software firm with hundreds of oil and gas clients – including some of […]

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The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend after a critical review of the broadcaster’s coverage was leaked to The Telegraph. The Telegraph has used this opportunity to slam the BBC […]

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The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend after a critical review of the broadcaster’s coverage was leaked to The Telegraph. The Telegraph has used this opportunity to slam the BBC […]

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The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the anti-state pressure group, must implement reforms to be more transparent and less politically biased, according to the charities regulator. The Charity Commission launched an investigation into the IEA in May, based on “perceptions of potential political bias, perceptions of a potential lack of transparency around funding, and perceptions that […]

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LIVERPOOL – Gas companies and Conservative lobby groups have been leaning on the Labour Party to allow tech companies to use gas to power their energy-guzzling artificial intelligence (AI). A number of events have taken place at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool this week focused on how the UK can become a leader in building […]

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President Donald Trump’s UK ambassador holds investments in the companies set to develop flagship tech projects across the country. U.S. financial records show that Warren Stephens’ family-owned investment firm owns shares worth at least $800 million in tech companies, including $169 million in Microsoft, $118 million in Nvidia, and $114 million in Alphabet (Google’s parent […]

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A leading press freedom group has accused Reform UK of drawing from the “authoritarian playbook” by blocking media outlets from attending its annual conference this weekend. The party informed DeSmog and the New World yesterday that its journalists would not be accredited for this year’s event. It did not offer an explanation. The New World […]

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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is hosting a number of radical anti-climate groups at its conference this weekend, DeSmog can report. They include the Heartland Institute, a group close to Donald Trump’s administration, which has called human-induced climate change a “delusion”. The conference will also play host to Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the […]

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