External articles by Nafeez M Ahmed

UK Sanctions Will ‘Flop’ Because City of London Is Compromised by Russian Money

A former US defence advisor warns that Britain is likely to be the biggest drag on any Western sanctions initiative against Vladimir Putin

Is Priti Patel Trying to Militarise Britain's Domestic Counter-Extremism?

An ex-Royal Marine Special Forces operations planner turned spy agency consultant is advising on the appointment of the next top counter-extremism commissioner

COP26 Pledges will have Catastrophic Consequences Says Ex-NASA Climate Chief

Professor James Hansen believes the inadequate policies agreed at November’s UN climate change summit will lead to the planet breaching its 1.5°C danger zone this decade

Advisor to Government Agency Demands Police Investigation Into ‘Criminal’ Healthcare Worker COVID Deaths

A formal complaint accuses the British Government of facilitating ‘the largest single health and safety disaster to befall the United Kingdom workforce since the introduction of asbestos products’

The Conservative Cash Register: Boris Johnson’s Super-Rich Backers

The Prime Minister likes to be a ‘man of the people’ – but a new investigation reveals his political benefactors represent a tiny cabal of 46 extremely rich British financiers

Rishi Sunak’s Energy Delusion

The Chancellor’s suggestion that a future of dirty, expensive energy is inevitable and that the public must simply accept it is false

JP Morgan’s misinformation on the clean energy disruption – a handy guide

Carbon Captured: The Fossil Fuel Industry & the UK Government's ‘Net Zero’ Advisory panel

Nafeez Ahmed looks at the way powerful oil and gas lobbies could be hijacking climate change policy at the expense of taxpayers

Conservative Rebellion Against Johnson Led by Pandemic Disinformation Network

Steve Baker’s COVID Recovery Group was backed by a company whose chairman is also a director of Toby Young’s COVID website

Enabling Acts: Citizenship of Quarter of Britons at Risk as Conservatives Construct an Authoritarian Legal Infrastructure

Nafeez Ahmed analyses eight bills which, taken as a whole, reveal an unprecedented and undemocratic ethno-nationalist power grab

Cambridge Faculty of Divinity Ignores Demands for Inquiry into Peter Thiel’s Far-Right Influence

Cambridge University fails to answer questions raised by staff and students after Byline Times’ revelation that racist pseudoscience is being promoted on campus under the guise of ‘freedom of speech’

Scientist Behind Wuhan ‘Lab Leak’ Theory Secured Funding from Pentagon’s Science Division

Nafeez Ahmed looks at the scientific credentials of the authors behind a book that has powered baseless speculation that the Chinese Government ‘engineered’ COVID-19

Steve Baker’s Conservative Rebellion Tied to Pro-Trump Disinformation Network Bankrolled by Robert Mercer

The rebel Tory MP sits in the middle of hard-right lobby networks on climate change and the pandemic linked to Cambridge Analytica, reveal Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes

Peter Thiel’s Free Speech for Race Science Crusade at Cambridge University REVEALED

In a special investigation, Nafeez Ahmed reveals how Palantir-linked Donald Trump lobbyists are using ‘free speech’ to normalise white nationalism on UK campuses

For Whom the Bell: Curves Advisor to Johnson’s Levelling Up Ally Hosts Race Science Extremist

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how a pioneer of scientific racism was hosted at British universities by a charity with close Conservative Party and Government ties

Carbon Captured: The Links Between BP’s Law Firm, A Government Taskforce, & Billions in Public Contracts

Nafeez Ahmed explores the strange case of a Government climate change forum, and its apparent association with a major representative of the fossil fuel industry

Boris Johnson’s Kodak Moment On Climate Change

The UK must uncouple itself from redundant fossil fuels and embrace energy innovation, contend James Arbib and Nafeez Ahmed

The Next Economy: Why the growth and degrowth debate misses the point

Fossil Fuelled Host of COP26 Met Big Oil & Nuclear Lobbies Over 200 Times

Nafeez Ahmed reveals disinformation campaigns and a frenzy of lobbying of the British Government by fossil fuel giants ahead of the UN climate change conference

How ExxonMobil Captured COP26

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how the British Government is working with a top climate denial funder to promote unproven environmental solutions

COP26 Host Urges UK Businesses To Reap Oil Profits in Saudi Arabia and Beyond

Nafeez Ahmed reveals that, while hosting the climate change summit on one hand, the UK Government is encouraging expansion of fossil fuel extraction with the other

Britain courts fossil fuel lobbying governments to increase oil and gas production

As the UK government holds the presidency of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, it is seeking to increase fossil fuel production in almost every country involved in attempting to water down a landmark UN climate report

COP26 President’s Decade of Defending Fossil Fuel Industry and Torpedoing Climate Action

Nafeez Ahmed examines Alok Sharma’s voting record, which raises substantial concerns around the Conservative MP’s suitability to chair a summit many describe as the world’s last chance on climate change

COP26 President Received Funding from Billionaire Fossil Fuel Investor Tied to ExxonMobil

Nafeez Ahmed reveals that Alok Sharma, the British MP appointed head of the UN climate summit, received donations from a businessman behind a billion dollar oil and shipping company