External articles by Nafeez M Ahmed

Alt-Right Pseudoscience – Part 2: The Free Speech Union and Scientific Racism

Nafeez Ahmed reveals British commentator Toby Young’s defence of the Nazi-inspired Pioneer Fund and explores how discredited race science has been normalised under the guise of ‘free speech’

Byline Times

Alt-Right Pseudoscience - Part 1: Lockdown Sceptics

Quiet hospitals? False PCR tests? Nafeez Ahmed reports on how the British commentator Toby Young is using COVID-19 disinformation to radicalise conservatives

Byline Times

Ministry of Defence Funds Man Behind Great Barrington Declaration

Nafeez Ahmed reveals that the secret author of the ‘Herd Immunity’ document is the partner of one of the scientists and has direct connections to fossil fuel interests

Byline Times

COVID-19 Is a Symptom of a Planet That's Been Pushed Past a Tipping Point

The pandemic could signal that we've passed a series of civilizational tipping points that will usher in a new era of ecological emergencies

VICE

Trumpism Still Festers in Boris Johnson's Britain – But it is Dying

Nafeez Ahmed tracks the export of populist demagoguery from America to Britain and urges a campaign to snuff out its dying embers

Byline Times

Trump’s Coup was Predicted Four Years Ago: This is How it Might Succeed

An expert on US election law foresaw Trump’s attempts to use allegations of voter fraud, the military and Republican lawmakers to mount a coup in the United States

Byline Times

Trumpocracy in the UK: Boris Johnson’s Lobby Group & US ‘Dark Money’

Nafeez Ahmed examines new tax filings in the US which raise more questions about the influence of the Henry Jackson Society on the UK Government

Byline Times

Michael Gove’s Lobbyists at the Heart of White Nationalist Trumpworld

In the next part of this special Byline Times investigation, Nafeez Ahmed delves into a controversial ‘Alt-Right’ event attended by key figures in a conservative lobbying group with Home Office funding to research Islamist militancy

Byline Times

Trumpocracy in the UK: Did British Conservative Lobby Group Help Shape Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’?

In the second part of its special investigation, Byline Times reveals how the man credited with inspiring Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ had close links with members of a British conservative lobby group with links to Steve Bannon and the Mercers

Byline Times

Trumpocracy in the UK: Government Links with Steve Bannon & the Mercers

The links between an opaque think tank, the Conservative Government and major figures in the Trump campaign can be revealed in this first part of a special Byline Times investigation

Byline Times

Capitalism Will Ruin the Earth By 2050, Scientists Say

The good news is, by cutting our consumption, there's another way

VICE

How the White House’s Herd Immunity Strategy Would Destroy the US Economy

Nafeez Ahmed on a new report which shows the disastrous consequences of Donald Trump’s adoption of the false choices of fringe scientific theory

Byline Times

Koch-Funded PR Agency Aided Great Barrington Declaration Sponsor

The company Emergent Order has provided extensive multimedia public relations support services to a network of climate science deniers bankrolled by the Charles Koch Foundation

Byline Times

Climate Science Denial Network Behind Great Barrington Declaration

The ‘think-tank’ behind the Great Barrington Declaration is part-funded by right-wing American billionaire Charles Koch

Byline Times

To Save US Democracy, American Muslims Must Resist Foreign Interests Backing Trump

Nafeez Ahmed digs deeper into the censorship of an article he wrote, attacking those on the left who are boycotting the largest campaign to get Muslims out to vote in next month’s Presidential Election

Byline Times

Cambridge University Divests From Big Oil Years Too Late

After a five-year student- and faculty-led campaign, Cambridge says it'll cut ties with fossil fuel companies ... by 2030

VICE

Why are America’s progressive Arab movements supporting Trump?

Middle East Monitor

Scamademics? Right-Wing Lobbying Groups Reviving ‘Herd Immunity’ in the UK

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how a high-profile letter to Boris Johnson was based on ‘fringe pseudoscience’ and co-drafted by a Government advisor who downplayed the COVID-19 death toll

Byline Times

British Military Prepares for Climate-Fueled Resource Shortages

The UK military expects 3.5 degrees of warming, and will weigh going to war simply to ensure its ability to go to war (by stabilizing access to critical resources)

VICE

Catastrophic Hurricanes Are the ‘New Normal,’ and They Will Cost Trillions

Taxpayers and already struggling communities are largely bearing the brunt of the costs for climate change-fueled disasters created by big oil and big business

VICE

The End of the Oil Age Is Upon Us

A new report suggests that over the next 30 years, at least 80 percent of the oil industry will be wiped out

VICE

Towards a great forest transition - part 2

A fundamental sea-change is required in the global approach to tackling deforestation, and it requires a new focus on engendering institutions of cooperation rather than competition

The Ecologist

Towards a great forest transition - part 1

Industrial expansion has resulted in the loss of some 420 million hectares of forest overall since 1990, and the decrease of old-growth primary forest worldwide by over 80 million hectares

The Ecologist

Theoretical Physicists Say 90% Chance of Societal Collapse Within Several Decades

Deforestation and rampant resource use is likely to trigger the 'irreversible collapse' of human civilization unless we rapidly change course

VICE