Sam Bright
@writesbright.bsky.social
Investigative journalist, author, and Yorkshireman. DeSmog’s UK deputy editor.
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It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy
A paper that knows a thing or two about editorial f*ck-ups...
writesbright.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
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The Telegraph had to correct its multiple lies about "illegal immigrants" in London at least three separate times.
It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy
A paper that knows a thing or two about editorial f*ck-ups...
writesbright.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The Telegraph had to correct its multiple lies about "illegal immigrants" in London at least three separate times.
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The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
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 aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
Notable that the supposedly “patriotic” wing of British politics wants to destroy / defund almost all of our national institutions
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Notable that the supposedly “patriotic” wing of British politics wants to destroy / defund almost all of our national institutions
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“The Charity Commission took at face value the IEA’s assurances, without seeing any tangible, real-world evidence that it was becoming more transparent and neutral.
Indeed, all the evidence actually points in the opposite direction.”
Indeed, all the evidence actually points in the opposite direction.”
🔴 Tufton Street’s influence is epitomised by the Charity Commission’s total failure to regulate Tufton Street.
📝 A new rant about the regulator’s latest investigation into the IEA 👇
📝 A new rant about the regulator’s latest investigation into the IEA 👇
Captured by the ‘free market’ fanatics
The Charity Commission’s political naivety complex...
writesbright.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
“The Charity Commission took at face value the IEA’s assurances, without seeing any tangible, real-world evidence that it was becoming more transparent and neutral.
Indeed, all the evidence actually points in the opposite direction.”
Indeed, all the evidence actually points in the opposite direction.”
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🔴 Tufton Street’s influence is epitomised by the Charity Commission’s total failure to regulate Tufton Street.
📝 A new rant about the regulator’s latest investigation into the IEA 👇
📝 A new rant about the regulator’s latest investigation into the IEA 👇
Captured by the ‘free market’ fanatics
The Charity Commission’s political naivety complex...
writesbright.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🔴 Tufton Street’s influence is epitomised by the Charity Commission’s total failure to regulate Tufton Street.
📝 A new rant about the regulator’s latest investigation into the IEA 👇
📝 A new rant about the regulator’s latest investigation into the IEA 👇
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See also: Jensen Huang demanding the uk build more fossil fuel generation to power data centres full of his chips.
🔴 NEW - Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, flogged its tech to the oil industry in Brazil on the eve of the COP30 summit
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
See also: Jensen Huang demanding the uk build more fossil fuel generation to power data centres full of his chips.
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Next time you hear energy-hungry big tech claiming to be the solution to climate change, remember Nvidia was in Brazil pushing technology to aid oil and gas exploration … on the eve of COP30
🔴 NEW - Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, flogged its tech to the oil industry in Brazil on the eve of the COP30 summit
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Next time you hear energy-hungry big tech claiming to be the solution to climate change, remember Nvidia was in Brazil pushing technology to aid oil and gas exploration … on the eve of COP30
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Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
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...
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
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...
🔴 NEW - Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, flogged its tech to the oil industry in Brazil on the eve of the COP30 summit
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🔴 NEW - Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, flogged its tech to the oil industry in Brazil on the eve of the COP30 summit
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
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The Charity Commission 'investigation' of a 'charity' (which is really a free market lobbyist that doesn't declare its funders) incredibly accepts assurances that it isn't an overtly political body.
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writesbright.substack.com/p/captured-b...
Captured by the ‘free market’ fanatics
The Charity Commission’s political naivety complex...
writesbright.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The Charity Commission 'investigation' of a 'charity' (which is really a free market lobbyist that doesn't declare its funders) incredibly accepts assurances that it isn't an overtly political body.
writesbright.substack.com/p/captured-b...
writesbright.substack.com/p/captured-b...
🔴 Tufton Street’s influence is epitomised by the Charity Commission’s total failure to regulate Tufton Street.
📝 A new rant about the regulator’s latest investigation into the IEA 👇
📝 A new rant about the regulator’s latest investigation into the IEA 👇
Captured by the ‘free market’ fanatics
The Charity Commission’s political naivety complex...
writesbright.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🔴 Tufton Street’s influence is epitomised by the Charity Commission’s total failure to regulate Tufton Street.
📝 A new rant about the regulator’s latest investigation into the IEA 👇
📝 A new rant about the regulator’s latest investigation into the IEA 👇
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Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.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...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.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...
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Reminder that, of the identified UK funding to Tufton St. think tanks, around 46% of the money going to these "impartial" organisations comes from foundations run by, or with a Tory peer sitting on the board of trustees.
They don't declare their donors, and almost all hold dire transparency ratings
They don't declare their donors, and almost all hold dire transparency ratings
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reminder that, of the identified UK funding to Tufton St. think tanks, around 46% of the money going to these "impartial" organisations comes from foundations run by, or with a Tory peer sitting on the board of trustees.
They don't declare their donors, and almost all hold dire transparency ratings
They don't declare their donors, and almost all hold dire transparency ratings
5 November - Charity Commission demands more political neutrality and transparency from the IEA
6 November - the IEA (which still doesn’t declare its donors) appoints Lord Frost, a climate denier Tory peer, as its new director
so much for “neutrality”
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6 November - the IEA (which still doesn’t declare its donors) appoints Lord Frost, a climate denier Tory peer, as its new director
so much for “neutrality”
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Charity Commission Demands More Transparency and Neutrality from IEA
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 Com...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
5 November - Charity Commission demands more political neutrality and transparency from the IEA
6 November - the IEA (which still doesn’t declare its donors) appoints Lord Frost, a climate denier Tory peer, as its new director
so much for “neutrality”
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6 November - the IEA (which still doesn’t declare its donors) appoints Lord Frost, a climate denier Tory peer, as its new director
so much for “neutrality”
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Low bills & clean energy.
This is the future that Reform is trying to thwart
This is the future that Reform is trying to thwart
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Low bills & clean energy.
This is the future that Reform is trying to thwart
This is the future that Reform is trying to thwart
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🚨You need to read Rei's feature on UK Labour's love affair with US authoritarian Big Tech, a coterie of firms now openly undermining democracy worldwide.
I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to!
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
The sheer scale of Labour's deals with Trump-donating Big Tech firms has been seriously under-reported.
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 👇👇
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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
November 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🚨You need to read Rei's feature on UK Labour's love affair with US authoritarian Big Tech, a coterie of firms now openly undermining democracy worldwide.
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This very good. Follow the money.
🔴 NEW - The real aim of Farage’s big speech on the economy
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The real aim of Farage’s big speech on the economy
Farage’s ulterior motive...
writesbright.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This very good. Follow the money.
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The real aim of Farage’s big speech on the economy: Farage’s ulterior motive... writesbright.substack.com/p/the-real-a...
The real aim of Farage’s big speech on the economy
Farage’s ulterior motive...
writesbright.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The real aim of Farage’s big speech on the economy: Farage’s ulterior motive... writesbright.substack.com/p/the-real-a...
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🔴 NEW - The real aim of Farage’s big speech on the economy
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The real aim of Farage’s big speech on the economy
Farage’s ulterior motive...
writesbright.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🔴 NEW - The real aim of Farage’s big speech on the economy
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🔴 NEW - The real aim of Farage’s big speech on the economy
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The real aim of Farage’s big speech on the economy
Farage’s ulterior motive...
writesbright.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🔴 NEW - The real aim of Farage’s big speech on the economy
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Beyond worrisome.
The sheer scale of Labour's deals with Trump-donating Big Tech firms has been seriously under-reported.
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
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
Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises
When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he brought along a retinue of his favourite Silicon V...
www.desmog.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Beyond worrisome.