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Sam Bright

Sam Bright leads DeSmog’s coverage of UK politics. He was previously an investigative journalist at the BBC and has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Mirror, and others. He is the author of two books.

Articles by Sam Bright

uk/Revealed: Fossil Fuel Giants Are Using British Influencers to go Viral
BySam Bright
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Some of the world’s biggest polluters are paying social media celebrities and environmentalists to promote their brands to billions of people.
Series: Advertising & PR Industry
Credit: Feodora Chiosea / Alamy Stock Vector
uk/Major Polluter Drax Among Government-Backed Companies Donating to Northern Tory MPs
BySam Bright
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The Northern Research Group has been accused of a ‘clear conflict of interest’ in accepting sponsorship from firms that are major beneficiaries of government spending.
Credit: PA Images / Alamy
Rishi Sunak Boasts That Oil Funded Think Tank ‘Helped Us Draft’ Crackdown on Climate Protests
BySam Bright
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The prime minister praised Policy Exchange, which received $30,000 from oil and gas giant ExxonMobil in 2017, for shaping laws that target green activists.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Credit: Simon Walker / 10 Downing Street, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
High-Profile Allies of Anti-Net Zero Parliamentary Group Revealed in Telegraph Letter
BySam Bright
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Former Conservative ministers and high-ranking MPs among those who have backed Net Zero Scrutiny Group’s new attack on green policy
Conservative MP and former Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg. Credit: Simon Dawson / 10 Downing Street, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
uk/‘We Have to Stop Demonising Oil and Gas’ Jacob Rees-Mogg Told UAE Investment Chief
BySam Bright
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The ex-cabinet minister’s comments have been described as a ‘damning indictment’ of the Conservative government.
Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg. Credit: Allstar Picture Library / Alamy
Conservative Party Funds Anti-ULEZ Facebook Ad Blitz
BySam Bright
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Rishi Sunak’s party has attacked green traffic measures via adverts to millions of UK voters, despite central government commitments to cut road pollution.
An anti-ULEZ protest in Oxford, England. Credit: StellaPhotography / Alamy
Telegraph Columnist Allison Pearson Becomes Director of Climate Science Denial Group
BySam Bright
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The newspaper’s chief interviewer and columnist joins an increasingly influential body of trustees at the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
Telegraph journalist and GWPF director Allison Pearson. Credit: Keith Morris / Hay Ffotos / Alamy
Tufton Street Linked Donors Have Given £630,000 to the Conservatives Since Sunak Became Prime Minister
BySam Bright
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Financial, ideological and senior staff ties are still channelling the interests of opaquely funded think tanks into the heart of government.
55 Tufton Street. Credit: R4vi, CC-BY-SA-2.0
Tory MPs Accept £20,000 from Director of Climate Science Denial Group
BySam Bright
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Leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt is among those to have received funds from a firm owned by a former chair of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt. Credit: Vicki Couchman / Bond, CC BY-ND 2.0
us/Petroleum Association and Controversial Waste Management Firm Sponsoring Events at Flagship Environmental Journalism Conference
BySam Bright
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Campaigners say there’s “no excuse” for allowing Veolia North America and the Western States Petroleum Association to sponsor events at the Society of Environmental Journalists gathering.
Veolia's Sheffield Energy Recovery Facility. A trade union in Sheffield accused the company of diverting recyclable material for incineration. Credit: Tim David (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)