@patrickhadfield h'mmm... But they're resigning for diametrically the wrong reason: because they offended #Trump by editing together two things which he really did say, really in the same speech, although they apparently didn't make it clear it was an edit; and not because they have ruthlessly promoted far-right spokespeople like #Farage and the #55TuftonStreet mafia.

As Nigel Farage's far-right anti-immigration Reform Party holds its conference in Birmingham, don't forget its anti-climate policies, funded by a powerful network of wealthy supporters.

Desmog's investigation and interactive map compiles for the first time the political infrastructure supporting Reform’s anti-climate crusade.

#ReformParty #NigelFarage #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDenial
#HeartlandInstitute #55TuftonStreet

Mapped: Reform UK’s Anti-Green Network - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2024/09/20/mapped-reform-uk-nigel-farage-anti-green-network/

Mapped: Reform UK’s Anti-Green Network

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK describes itself as a people’s movement taking on the British establishment.  The anti-immigration party, which won five seats in July’s general election and is holding its annual conference this week in Birmingham, attacks climate action as a costly imposition by “elites” on ordinary people.  But a DeSmog analysis reveals that Reform […]

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@antinomy @DaiE Reading the article, it appears that one of the trustees of the charity is the person who actually owns the building at #55TuftonStreet, so yes, I think that's blatantly what's happening.
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Mapped: The Tory Network of Climate Denial and Fossil Fuel Funding

Speaking outside Downing Street on 23 May, announcing a general election for 4 July, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took a swipe at what he dubbed “environmental dogma”. It was a sign of how much has changed since 2021, when the UK hosted the flagship COP26 UN climate summit with a promise “irrefutably to turn the […]

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Top science journal faced secret attacks from Covid conspiracy theory group

A conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists mounted an extraordinary campaign against one of the world’s most prestigious science journals – part of a series of joint investigations between Byline Times and Computer Weekly

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… or indeed people getting contracts for unusable PPE. (-:

@femme_mal made an interesting additional point, too.

@Stevenheywood @Peternimmo @beecycling

#UKPolitics #Brexit #55TuftonStreet

@Peternimmo @beecycling

(Both you and @cstross have threads on this, now.)

That's unfair to loonies. This is not lunacy; but deliberate sociopathic self-centredness, arrogance, and greed.

From reading the article my first reaction is that, as ever on the Internet, the people making the accusations are doing what they accuse others of.

The people claiming that someone is trying to undermine scientific journals, turn out to be the people doing it.

#UKPolitics #Brexit #55TuftonStreet

Excellent article covering the undemocratic influence that the Tufton Street think tanks have on UK policy.

The corrupt constitution of UK politics needs to be torn down and rebuilt.

The Tory donor, Soviet-born Billionaire and Fossil Fuel Interests Bankrolling British Politics:
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/07/20/the-tory-donor-soviet-born-billionaire-and-fossil-fuel-interests-bankrolling-british-politics/

#News #Newstodon #NewsTooter #TuftonStreet #55TuftonStreet

The Tory donor, Soviet-born Billionaire and Fossil Fuel Interests Bankrolling British Politics   – Byline Times

Policy Exchange, Institute for Economic Affairs, Global Warming Policy Foundation and co refuse to name their donors. But Peter Geoghegan has found recently published US tax documents that reveal important new details about who funds these secretive think tanks

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Right-wing think tank Civitas accused of ‘fuelling panic’ over teen transition claims

A report from Civitas claiming one in 10 teens want to change their gender has been criticised for “fuelling panic” about LGBTQ+ people. 

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