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Will Vowell
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Programme lead, Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit @eciu.net | previously: comms for Caroline Lucas | views my own | he/him 🏳️‍🌈
After successful complaints via IPSO, the Express has been forced to provide correction notices on three articles.

No comment from the Daily Express or Lois Perry herself, but there have been no columns since late August…

Piece by @josiah.writes.news in this month’s @bylinetimes.bsky.social 👇
October 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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...
July 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
When 6 months ago, on the closure of the last coal power station, its leader said:

“Few will mourn coal’s passing: it is the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel… Britain can be proud of its record on refashioning its energy mix over the last decade and a half.” (2/2)

www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...
April 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
⚠️Irony alert: remarkable to see a Times leader column argue yesterday:

“The recent dash to renewables, and precipitous abandonment of remaining coal and North Sea oil reserves, have left Britain peculiarly vulnerable”… (1/2)

www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...
April 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Glad to see this @thetimes.com article from yesterday corrected to clarify that EV sales are not “falling”, but rising.

In fact, rising so much that as of today, 1 in 4 cars sold is electric.

Still not sure those figures can be considered “disappointing”, though…

www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
December 5, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Telegraph: “falling weather delays” on railways.

Reality: increasing weather delays on railways.

This is climate misinformation in action.

Glad IPSO have ruled that this breached the code - the first article about climate change to be guilty of a breach since 2020.

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0155...
October 17, 2024 at 3:41 PM