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Sam Bright

@writesbright.bsky.social
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Investigative journalist, author, and Yorkshireman. DeSmog’s UK deputy editor. writesbright.substack.com

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rupert Murdoch’s media empire paid £8,000+ for Kemi Badenoch to attend various meetings in Greece with company execs a few weeks ago
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Had a rant.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Labour should have acted quicker to stop this - and it may seriously regret not doing so
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Farage has said he thinks it’s “absolutely nuts” for CO2 to be considered a pollutant, while Badenoch says candidates aren’t welcome in the Conservative Party that support net zero. Leaders of the civilisational collapse cult.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Not to take any undeserved credit, but Andy Burnham’s economic agenda sounds a lot like a book I once wrote
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
slightly awkward ad placement on this Guardian article
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
As featured on the front page of The Guardian today 👇🏻 💪🏻
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Aside from being abhorrent, this policy doesn’t make any logical sense. Surely, under Reform’s rationale, if you vote for a pro-deportations party then the deportation centres should be built in Reform seats
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Nigel Farage was very recently talking up Dubai as a place we should seek to emulate - especially its approach to “crime”
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This is violent, sickening rhetoric. GB News commentator claiming here that non “indigenous” people are committing “genocide” against the UK. GB News is beyond the fucking pale
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Farage has been flying around the world trying to raise cash from foreign donors - a fact that deserves a front page a million times more than this autocratic racism
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Reform’s new “head of policy” has said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a “regional Slavic conflict”. He added: “It is a conflict happening in the world that I don’t care very much about.”
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Farage’s economic agenda is basically a manual in how to crash the economy
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
oh the irony of *The Spectator* leading with this line
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Well this is dodgy as fuck
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Smarmy narcissistic wannabe autocrats Matthew Goodwin and Robert Jenrick in the same parliamentary party
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
oh god he’s at it again
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This is truly awful prose
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
If I was the Labour government, I simply would not allow an oil industry supplier with 600+ fossil fuel clients to sponsor my pavilion at the world’s flagship climate summit. 📝 my new story out today in the latest Private Eye 👇🏻
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
No more blatant example of Question Time’s bias than this. Goodwin is a Reform activist and GB News presenter - you’d have to be intentionally blind to think he’s an academic
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Fair play, Polanski
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Writing in The Telegraph a couple of days ago, Trump's ambassador to the UK Warren Stephens lobbied the Labour government to drill for North Sea oil and restart fracking. As of a few months ago, Warren Stephens had at least $250 million invested in fossil fuel companies.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
It’s quite a feat for Isabel Oakeshott to be the only white person in a London tube carriage given she lives in Dubai
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Tell me you’ve never played sport without telling me you’ve never played sport
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
guilty your honour 😬
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
If only we knew who was responsible for the things that Farage and the far-right are complaining about on a daily basis. Oh wait it’s the Brexit campaign.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I beg of the Labour Party, regardless of faction, to please stop it with the platitudes. “Real debate” “Robust” ideas “Hearts and minds”
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This also isn’t true. Raskin literally said: “there’s no free speech crisis in Britain”
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Dominic Cummings is a prat. Help me to overtake him 👇🏻 writesbright.substack.com/subscribe
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Oh the gold-encrusted irony of Guido claiming that the BBC is failing to properly label campaigners. Tufton St will surely be telling Lord Kempsell, Guido's current editor, to keep his gob shut.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Thanks everyone! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Some creep / bot has set up an imposter account in my name - would appreciate you reporting them - @writesbrlght.bsky.social
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Oh the irony. The four seats held by Reform MPs suffer from high exposure to heatwaves, according to Friends of the Earth data. Just look at the map of Clacton 👇🏻 Farage denies basic climate science and has claimed it’s “absolutely nuts” for CO2 to be considered a pollutant.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Don’t usually drag other reporters but how on earth does this qualify as journalism
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The coffee was badly needed
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Woke up ridiculously early to see some Bristol balloons (yes that is a dinosaur)
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Greece 🇬🇷
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
BBC on a normal one again - posting a clip on Instagram (without any other perspectives) of Niall Ferguson calling for “Thatcherism on steroids” and lauding Javier Milei. The producers even included this fun little graphic for good measure
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Got a pretty good snap of the baby last time
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Chatted about the Trump-Musk beef on Sky this morning. Hopefully didn’t provoke another trade war.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Can very much see this playing out in 2029
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Probably not the most important point here but how can you be the “Deputy Chief Executive” of the entire renewable energy sector
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
ffs
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
As per his latest register of interests 👇
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Sad that the New Statesman, supposedly Britain's leading left-wing magazine, has turned into a poor imitation of the Spectator. How does that make commercial or editorial sense?
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
weapons-grade morons
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Three years since Fortress London hit the bookshops. Still in love with this front cover. No idea why we changed it for the paperback
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
That’s because British homes are ridiculously leaky, in no small part thanks to David Cameron deciding to “cut the green crap” and destroying budgets for insulation / retrofit
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Craig Mackinlay has obviously made a big contribution to sepsis awareness - but this is hugely crass. Don’t think other sepsis sufferers would be happy with him using the condition to further his weird anti-science, anti-climate campaign
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
👌🏻
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