Phoebe Cooke

About

Phoebe is a co-deputy editor at DeSmog UK, with a focus on European politics. She joined DeSmog in 2020, and was previously the organisation\’s senior reporter.

Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, Politico and Financial Times, Deutsche Welle and Irish investigative outlet The Journal. Phoebe is NCTJ-accredited. She holds a degree in German from Oxford University and a Masterโ€™s in environmental politics from Birkbeck.

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Activists are preparing to take the Government to court over itsย โ€œout of tuneโ€ planning policy in a challenge inspired by the watershed Heathrowย ruling. Three claimants - Guardian journalist Georg...
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Campaigners today hailed an โ€œhistoricโ€ victory for the climate after three judges ruled expansion plans for Heathrow Airportย unlawful. Activists erupted into cheers at the Royal Courts of Justice ...
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Itโ€™s 5pm on a dismal Monday and commuters are scurrying past Parliament on their way home. In the fast-fading light itโ€™s easy to miss a solitary teenager perched on a wet ledge and holding up a car...