Will Vowell
@willvowell.bsky.social
Programme lead, Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit @eciu.net | previously: comms for Caroline Lucas | views my own | he/him 🏳️🌈
The Telegraph has published a list of some of the BBC’s “errors” in its climate change coverage
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
Perhaps the following thread might be of interest to them too:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
Perhaps the following thread might be of interest to them too:
The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here.
These are the ones published since Labour won the election.
"We are happy to correct the record."
These are the ones published since Labour won the election.
"We are happy to correct the record."
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The Telegraph has published a list of some of the BBC’s “errors” in its climate change coverage
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
Perhaps the following thread might be of interest to them too:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
Perhaps the following thread might be of interest to them too:
🚨Rare defeat for climate misinformation🚨
Until recently, Lois Perry (ex-UKIP leader, now head of climate denial think tank Heartland) had a regular Express column promoting climate scepticism to 1000s of readers.
After a string of embarrassing inaccuracies, her column appears to have been dropped.
Until recently, Lois Perry (ex-UKIP leader, now head of climate denial think tank Heartland) had a regular Express column promoting climate scepticism to 1000s of readers.
After a string of embarrassing inaccuracies, her column appears to have been dropped.
October 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🚨Rare defeat for climate misinformation🚨
Until recently, Lois Perry (ex-UKIP leader, now head of climate denial think tank Heartland) had a regular Express column promoting climate scepticism to 1000s of readers.
After a string of embarrassing inaccuracies, her column appears to have been dropped.
Until recently, Lois Perry (ex-UKIP leader, now head of climate denial think tank Heartland) had a regular Express column promoting climate scepticism to 1000s of readers.
After a string of embarrassing inaccuracies, her column appears to have been dropped.
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The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles.
By my count, that is now the ELEVENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 14 separate articles).
I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...
By my count, that is now the ELEVENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 14 separate articles).
I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...
October 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles.
By my count, that is now the ELEVENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 14 separate articles).
I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...
By my count, that is now the ELEVENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 14 separate articles).
I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...
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Why are bills going up by £100 in April?
R4 Today's Nick Robinson claimed "People say bills are going to go up... because *you’re determined not to use fossil fuels*"
With many households still struggling with the cost of living, let's look at what's *actually* happening...
R4 Today's Nick Robinson claimed "People say bills are going to go up... because *you’re determined not to use fossil fuels*"
With many households still struggling with the cost of living, let's look at what's *actually* happening...
September 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Why are bills going up by £100 in April?
R4 Today's Nick Robinson claimed "People say bills are going to go up... because *you’re determined not to use fossil fuels*"
With many households still struggling with the cost of living, let's look at what's *actually* happening...
R4 Today's Nick Robinson claimed "People say bills are going to go up... because *you’re determined not to use fossil fuels*"
With many households still struggling with the cost of living, let's look at what's *actually* happening...
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💵 ENERGY BILLS & RENEWABLES
How much are they going up by?
Why are they going up?
What are the long-term causes of high bills?
A short 🧵 on why the answer isn't all blowing in the wind...
How much are they going up by?
Why are they going up?
What are the long-term causes of high bills?
A short 🧵 on why the answer isn't all blowing in the wind...
August 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
💵 ENERGY BILLS & RENEWABLES
How much are they going up by?
Why are they going up?
What are the long-term causes of high bills?
A short 🧵 on why the answer isn't all blowing in the wind...
How much are they going up by?
Why are they going up?
What are the long-term causes of high bills?
A short 🧵 on why the answer isn't all blowing in the wind...
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Oops! The Times has had to issue an embarrassing correction over supposedly "sluggish" EV sales 😳
❌ It said EV sales to private buyers fell 10.8% this yr
✅They actually GREW…by 62%
Yet Times articles still claim a "big fall", "collapse" & "slide" in private EV sales 🤔
1/7
❌ It said EV sales to private buyers fell 10.8% this yr
✅They actually GREW…by 62%
Yet Times articles still claim a "big fall", "collapse" & "slide" in private EV sales 🤔
1/7
August 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Oops! The Times has had to issue an embarrassing correction over supposedly "sluggish" EV sales 😳
❌ It said EV sales to private buyers fell 10.8% this yr
✅They actually GREW…by 62%
Yet Times articles still claim a "big fall", "collapse" & "slide" in private EV sales 🤔
1/7
❌ It said EV sales to private buyers fell 10.8% this yr
✅They actually GREW…by 62%
Yet Times articles still claim a "big fall", "collapse" & "slide" in private EV sales 🤔
1/7
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It seems to be contagious.
Now the Sun is also having to correct it heavily biased coverage of net-zero in response to, you know, actual facts...
Now the Sun is also having to correct it heavily biased coverage of net-zero in response to, you know, actual facts...
July 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
It seems to be contagious.
Now the Sun is also having to correct it heavily biased coverage of net-zero in response to, you know, actual facts...
Now the Sun is also having to correct it heavily biased coverage of net-zero in response to, you know, actual facts...
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Nice to see @theguardian.com print my letter in response to Simon Jenkins’ ill-informed article about wind farms and net zero.
Net zero isn’t a woolly “political ambition” - it’s a scientific concept that is required to stop climate change.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Net zero isn’t a woolly “political ambition” - it’s a scientific concept that is required to stop climate change.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
July 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Nice to see @theguardian.com print my letter in response to Simon Jenkins’ ill-informed article about wind farms and net zero.
Net zero isn’t a woolly “political ambition” - it’s a scientific concept that is required to stop climate change.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Net zero isn’t a woolly “political ambition” - it’s a scientific concept that is required to stop climate change.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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MEDIA STUDIES: How the Times bungled its coverage of the OBR report on climate change & UK govt debt
Yesterday's newspaper reported a major shift: "The OBR now thinks…net-zero will have a far more damaging impact on borrowing…"
In fact, the OBR had said the opposite!
1/6
Yesterday's newspaper reported a major shift: "The OBR now thinks…net-zero will have a far more damaging impact on borrowing…"
In fact, the OBR had said the opposite!
1/6
July 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
MEDIA STUDIES: How the Times bungled its coverage of the OBR report on climate change & UK govt debt
Yesterday's newspaper reported a major shift: "The OBR now thinks…net-zero will have a far more damaging impact on borrowing…"
In fact, the OBR had said the opposite!
1/6
Yesterday's newspaper reported a major shift: "The OBR now thinks…net-zero will have a far more damaging impact on borrowing…"
In fact, the OBR had said the opposite!
1/6
Embarrassing error from Juliet Samuel in the Times, writing: "gas heating bans will destroy boiler manufacturing".
Except there is no gas heating ban of any kind, nor plans for any.
Glad the inaccuracy has now been corrected - shame it happened in the first place.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Except there is no gas heating ban of any kind, nor plans for any.
Glad the inaccuracy has now been corrected - shame it happened in the first place.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
July 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Embarrassing error from Juliet Samuel in the Times, writing: "gas heating bans will destroy boiler manufacturing".
Except there is no gas heating ban of any kind, nor plans for any.
Glad the inaccuracy has now been corrected - shame it happened in the first place.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Except there is no gas heating ban of any kind, nor plans for any.
Glad the inaccuracy has now been corrected - shame it happened in the first place.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Well this is strange 🧐
Yesterday the @telegraphnews.bsky.social had an article about Ofgem's much-needed £24bn investment in upgrading the gas and electricity networks.
The author correctly stated that the *net increase* on an energy bill would be £24/yr by 2031
(£104/yr added, £80 saving):
Yesterday the @telegraphnews.bsky.social had an article about Ofgem's much-needed £24bn investment in upgrading the gas and electricity networks.
The author correctly stated that the *net increase* on an energy bill would be £24/yr by 2031
(£104/yr added, £80 saving):
July 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Well this is strange 🧐
Yesterday the @telegraphnews.bsky.social had an article about Ofgem's much-needed £24bn investment in upgrading the gas and electricity networks.
The author correctly stated that the *net increase* on an energy bill would be £24/yr by 2031
(£104/yr added, £80 saving):
Yesterday the @telegraphnews.bsky.social had an article about Ofgem's much-needed £24bn investment in upgrading the gas and electricity networks.
The author correctly stated that the *net increase* on an energy bill would be £24/yr by 2031
(£104/yr added, £80 saving):
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Kemi Badenoch's oil & gas speech: "When the oil and gas windfall tax was brought in, the oil price was near a historic high...but for months there has not been a windfall to tax"
The global oil price today, after conflict in Israel / Iran overnight📈
tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cr...
The global oil price today, after conflict in Israel / Iran overnight📈
tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cr...
June 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Kemi Badenoch's oil & gas speech: "When the oil and gas windfall tax was brought in, the oil price was near a historic high...but for months there has not been a windfall to tax"
The global oil price today, after conflict in Israel / Iran overnight📈
tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cr...
The global oil price today, after conflict in Israel / Iran overnight📈
tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cr...
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The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles.
By my count, that is now the TENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 13 separate articles).
I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...
By my count, that is now the TENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 13 separate articles).
I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...
June 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles.
By my count, that is now the TENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 13 separate articles).
I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...
By my count, that is now the TENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 13 separate articles).
I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...
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The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here.
These are the ones published since Labour won the election.
"We are happy to correct the record."
These are the ones published since Labour won the election.
"We are happy to correct the record."
June 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here.
These are the ones published since Labour won the election.
"We are happy to correct the record."
These are the ones published since Labour won the election.
"We are happy to correct the record."
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Melanie Phillips had a misleading column in
@thetimes.com yesterday
Claiming "net zero targets" have driven up energy prices, when actually it's the cost of gas
Here's a letter in this morning's paper challenging it.
@thetimes.com yesterday
Claiming "net zero targets" have driven up energy prices, when actually it's the cost of gas
Here's a letter in this morning's paper challenging it.
May 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Melanie Phillips had a misleading column in
@thetimes.com yesterday
Claiming "net zero targets" have driven up energy prices, when actually it's the cost of gas
Here's a letter in this morning's paper challenging it.
@thetimes.com yesterday
Claiming "net zero targets" have driven up energy prices, when actually it's the cost of gas
Here's a letter in this morning's paper challenging it.
Here’s the BBC being forced to correct its article about pylons, for including a figure which in reality was *600 times smaller* than it originally (and erroneously) stated.
Media misinformation on this topic is something to behold.
Media misinformation on this topic is something to behold.
In January, the BBC wrote an article fear mongering about pylons "springing up" across the country
It contained some wildly misleading figures which spread to other newspapers.
I'm glad to say they've FINALLY been corrected. Here's what happened...🧵
bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It contained some wildly misleading figures which spread to other newspapers.
I'm glad to say they've FINALLY been corrected. Here's what happened...🧵
bbc.co.uk/news/article...
May 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Here’s the BBC being forced to correct its article about pylons, for including a figure which in reality was *600 times smaller* than it originally (and erroneously) stated.
Media misinformation on this topic is something to behold.
Media misinformation on this topic is something to behold.
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Yesterday, Ross Clark claimed in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social
"The likely fall in the energy price cap will be purely a reaction to lower wholesale prices on international markets... it is simply markets at work"
Is this the same Ross Clark who blames "net zero" every time bills go up? 🧵😂
"The likely fall in the energy price cap will be purely a reaction to lower wholesale prices on international markets... it is simply markets at work"
Is this the same Ross Clark who blames "net zero" every time bills go up? 🧵😂
May 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Yesterday, Ross Clark claimed in the @thespectator1828.bsky.social
"The likely fall in the energy price cap will be purely a reaction to lower wholesale prices on international markets... it is simply markets at work"
Is this the same Ross Clark who blames "net zero" every time bills go up? 🧵😂
"The likely fall in the energy price cap will be purely a reaction to lower wholesale prices on international markets... it is simply markets at work"
Is this the same Ross Clark who blames "net zero" every time bills go up? 🧵😂
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The @telegraphnews.bsky.social claims that the 'boiler tax' has returned.
Has it? Was it even there in the first place? And what about claims that heat pump demand is "flatlining"?
& did the boiler companies ensure that the boiler tax they collected was returned to 'ripped off' consumers?🧵
Has it? Was it even there in the first place? And what about claims that heat pump demand is "flatlining"?
& did the boiler companies ensure that the boiler tax they collected was returned to 'ripped off' consumers?🧵
May 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The @telegraphnews.bsky.social claims that the 'boiler tax' has returned.
Has it? Was it even there in the first place? And what about claims that heat pump demand is "flatlining"?
& did the boiler companies ensure that the boiler tax they collected was returned to 'ripped off' consumers?🧵
Has it? Was it even there in the first place? And what about claims that heat pump demand is "flatlining"?
& did the boiler companies ensure that the boiler tax they collected was returned to 'ripped off' consumers?🧵
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@telegraphnews.bsky.social columnist Zoe Strimpel's opening sentence in a column this weekend states: "Ed Miliband is obsessed." [with net zero]
The Telegraph has written over 110 articles with "Miliband" in the title so far this year
That's one article every 30ish hours
Who's obsessed now?
The Telegraph has written over 110 articles with "Miliband" in the title so far this year
That's one article every 30ish hours
Who's obsessed now?
May 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
@telegraphnews.bsky.social columnist Zoe Strimpel's opening sentence in a column this weekend states: "Ed Miliband is obsessed." [with net zero]
The Telegraph has written over 110 articles with "Miliband" in the title so far this year
That's one article every 30ish hours
Who's obsessed now?
The Telegraph has written over 110 articles with "Miliband" in the title so far this year
That's one article every 30ish hours
Who's obsessed now?
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Interesting @theipaper.com story highlighting claims by the Food & Drink Federation that higher NI contributions and new food packaging levies are increasing prices.
But here's something they don't mention... what about climate change? 🧵 inews.co.uk/news/politic...
But here's something they don't mention... what about climate change? 🧵 inews.co.uk/news/politic...
May 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Interesting @theipaper.com story highlighting claims by the Food & Drink Federation that higher NI contributions and new food packaging levies are increasing prices.
But here's something they don't mention... what about climate change? 🧵 inews.co.uk/news/politic...
But here's something they don't mention... what about climate change? 🧵 inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Private Eye calls out "former newspaper" Daily Telegraph over its woeful coverage of net-zero
May 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Private Eye calls out "former newspaper" Daily Telegraph over its woeful coverage of net-zero
Six months ago, IPSO upheld our complaint against the Telegraph for its article falsely claiming rail delays due to extreme weather were falling (they weren’t).
Today, the facts are clear: 7,000 trains were delayed last year from floods alone. @roundourwayuk.bsky.social
inews.co.uk/news/environ...
Today, the facts are clear: 7,000 trains were delayed last year from floods alone. @roundourwayuk.bsky.social
inews.co.uk/news/environ...
Nearly 7,000 trains delayed last year by floods
Figures obtained by a Freedom of Information request lay bare the sheer scale of disruptions caused by flooding last year
inews.co.uk
May 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Six months ago, IPSO upheld our complaint against the Telegraph for its article falsely claiming rail delays due to extreme weather were falling (they weren’t).
Today, the facts are clear: 7,000 trains were delayed last year from floods alone. @roundourwayuk.bsky.social
inews.co.uk/news/environ...
Today, the facts are clear: 7,000 trains were delayed last year from floods alone. @roundourwayuk.bsky.social
inews.co.uk/news/environ...
Labour's Lord Glasman says: "Net Zero by 2030 is a delusion, which is worse than an illness."
He's right, it is a delusion. Because it's not actually the Government's policy - it's net zero by 2050.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/politic...
He's right, it is a delusion. Because it's not actually the Government's policy - it's net zero by 2050.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/politic...
Labour faces same fate as Tories after Reform surge - unless it does five things
MAY Day is a day of celebration to me and the Labour Party. We remember our ‘martyrs dead’ who died in factory fires, mining collapses and calamities at sea while earning a crust for themselves and…
www.thesun.co.uk
May 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Labour's Lord Glasman says: "Net Zero by 2030 is a delusion, which is worse than an illness."
He's right, it is a delusion. Because it's not actually the Government's policy - it's net zero by 2050.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/politic...
He's right, it is a delusion. Because it's not actually the Government's policy - it's net zero by 2050.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/politic...
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A @thetimes.com editorial yesterday suggested ditching the term ‘net zero’ in favour of ‘not quite zero’ instead…
To be fair to them, they did print a letter from me, commenting on that today though.
To be fair to them, they did print a letter from me, commenting on that today though.
May 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
A @thetimes.com editorial yesterday suggested ditching the term ‘net zero’ in favour of ‘not quite zero’ instead…
To be fair to them, they did print a letter from me, commenting on that today though.
To be fair to them, they did print a letter from me, commenting on that today though.
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There's lots of speculation about what happened with recent powercuts across Spain, Portugal and France, and answers may take a while.
It's worth bearing in mind
1) Major blackouts in UK & Europe are rare but have happened throughout history - no system is 100% reliable.
🧵
It's worth bearing in mind
1) Major blackouts in UK & Europe are rare but have happened throughout history - no system is 100% reliable.
🧵
April 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
There's lots of speculation about what happened with recent powercuts across Spain, Portugal and France, and answers may take a while.
It's worth bearing in mind
1) Major blackouts in UK & Europe are rare but have happened throughout history - no system is 100% reliable.
🧵
It's worth bearing in mind
1) Major blackouts in UK & Europe are rare but have happened throughout history - no system is 100% reliable.
🧵