Far from defending British independence, Reform and its by-election candidate Matt Goodwin are taking blueprints - and cash - from a global network of American hardliners

NatWest has been slammed for investing at least £17 million in the UK’s biggest supplier of coal to the cement industry, despite pressure on banks to stop financing fossil fuels. According to document...

Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf is set to speak tomorrow at the Heritage Foundation, the group behind the “extreme” ‘Project 2025’ playbook for Donald Trump’s second term. Yusuf, Reform’s home affairs spokesper...

As riots spread across Belfast, Tommy Robinson promoted a movement founded by a sanctioned Russian oligarch, which has pushed white supremacist propaganda about the death of Henry Nowak

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

Exclusive: Labour’s top team has accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from pro-Israel funders.

Two-thirds of the biggest 65 banks increased financing by $162bn from 2023 to 2024, walking back climate promises

Hungary’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) is an insult to victims and survivors of the world’s worst crimes.

Nigel Farage says his party is a break from the political establishment. That claim doesn’t match up with its donors

The figures are a show of the administration’s willingness to use extreme military force on its own population.

The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), the radical right-wing network fronted by Jordan Peterson, has accepted a large sum from a pharmaceutical executive whose firm was fined $47 million by ...

Right-wing US interests are pushing a plan to bend the UK to their will, ‘DOGE’-style – in Farage’s Reform UK they have an eager little helper

"All of us who care about an independent press, an informed populace, a responsive government, and a thriving democracy have a stake in the outcome of this fight," said one press freedom advocate.

The U.S. private equity firm KKR, which has been selected as the ‘preferred bidder’ for the takeover of Thames Water, gave a seven-figure sum to Donald Trump’s inauguration committee, DeSmog can repor...

Donald Trump tried to distance himself from the radical rightwing blueprint for government during the campaign but its prescriptions are all over the administration’s agenda

Research reveals the business of Channel security is booming, as companies profit off asylum seekers’ desperation

Trump denied knowing much about the Heritage Foundation’s programme for power. But his first 100 days shows he is following its recommendations.

David A Graham’s latest book considers the vast far-right plan to change US politics – and why its architects are playing the long game

Right-wing media owner Paul Marshall bought a large stake in Elon Musk’s company Tesla prior to the U.S. presidential election, DeSmog can reveal. At the same time, Marshall’s outlets were regularly p...

After seizing control of the US government, the Heritage Foundation turns its attention to the EU

Trump administration begins reducing Health and Human Services workforce as Kennedy plans up to 10,000 job cuts

The initiation of mass firings of over 20,000 scientists and public health workers at the Department of Health and Human Services marks a historic turning point in the collapse of American democracy a...

President Donald Trump gestures while speaking during an executive order signing event in the Oval Office on March 31. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) We have an idea of President Donald Trump’s...

Exclusive: New study reveals the scale of British intelligence gathering above Gaza, raising fears of complicity in Israeli war crimes

It’s no wonder that COP28 and COP29 reduced trust in climate diplomacy. But we could rebuild it by shifting priorities

Undercover at Reform UK’s biggest ever rally, I saw white men bond over fury at migrants, trans people and politicians

Arron Banks, who is standing as Nigel Farage’s Reform UK candidate for West of England Mayor, has repeatedly rejected elemental climate facts. The right-wing populist Reform UK describes itself as an ...

For reasons that are not terribly important, I was listening to my local NPR station before 6am EST this morning. I caught an interview with Yale University philosophy professor Jason Stanley. The int...

French far right leader and eight National Rally MEPs found guilty in embezzlement case

This special investigation between Canada’s National Observer and DeSmog was produced in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainability, Education and Action and TRACE Foundation. “No more carbon...

The wide-ranging crackdown on political speech is being framed as a means of combatting antisemitism

More than a dozen groups tied to conservative “friend of the court” Leonard Leo filed legal briefs pushing SCOTUS to further gut the government’s power to take on corporations.

Schimel’s record on environmental issues is clear. When he served as attorney general between 2015 and 2019, he repeatedly sided with major polluters and worked to undermine environmental protections.

The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU). The Polish investiga...

Elon Musk was the biggest donor during the 2024 election cycle. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images) Tech mogul and top White House advisor Elon Musk donated more than $291 million to Re...

"As soon as it stops accelerating, it stalls and explodes."

Four of the five parties elected to Greenland’s parliament two weeks ago have agreed to band together in a broad coalition.

From the detention of Mahmoud Khalil to the targeting of trans people, the Trump administration is no friend of women, Jews or the vulnerable