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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

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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

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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’

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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How ExxonMobil Captured COP26

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

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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

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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

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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

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Oil System Collapsing so Fast It May Derail Renewables Warn French Government Scientists

Forget ‘peak oil’. Nafeez Ahmed reveals how the oil and gas industries are cannibalising themselves as the costs of fossil fuel extraction mount

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Founders of Koch-Backed COVID Disinformation Organisation Bankroll New Cross-Party Parliamentary Group

Nafeez Ahmed reports on the recently formed APPG on Pandemic Response and Recovery, chaired by a Conservative MP, and which includes climate science deniers among its members

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Inside the Radicalised Anti-Vaxxer Network‘Influencing’ Government Vaccine Advisory Panel

As Covid lobbying groups combine to oppose child vaccination, Nafeez Ahmed and Karam Bales investigate how conspiracy theories and pseudoscience disfigure public debate

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Gas Crisis Reveals Imminent End of Europe’s Fossil Fuel Age

Nafeez Ahmed sees the current energy crisis as a symptom of a deeper malaise – reliance on Russia and fossil fuels – which could lead to spiralling inflation and a perfect global economic storm

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Up to Six Million People: The Unrecorded Fatalities of the ‘War on Terror’

Nafeez Ahmed examines the direct and indirect deaths of the post 9/11 era, as a new kind of state-sanctioned mass violence became globalised and normalised

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The Return of the Taliban: The End of the US Empire?

Before 9/11, Nafeez Ahmed warned of an impending invasion of Afghanistan to control a strategic pipeline. 20 years on, the return of the Taliban is the predictable legacy of America’s failed strategy

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How to Save the World in 15 Years – Part Three: The Looming Death Spiral of Carbon-intensive Industries

Disruptive technologies and societal change could allow us to reach net zero much quicker than anticipated – if we make the right choices now

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How to Save the World in 15 Years – Part Two: Net Zero is Not Enough

Just as we underestimated the speed and scale of climate change, Nafeez Ahmed argues, our narrow, linear ways are leading us to underestimate the scope of potential solutions

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How to Save the World in 15 Years – Part One

As the IPCC issues its direst warnings yet about an inevitable rise in global warming into the 1.5C danger zone, Nafeez Ahmed proposes a better way out of its dystopian vision

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‘World Health Organisation Doomed the World by Concealing Evidence of Airborne COVID Transmission’

A former senior advisor to the SARS Commission believes that there should be an investigation into how responses to the Coronavirus pandemic were based on an outmoded theory, leading to the deaths of healthcare workers

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