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Guido Fawkes22 Jul 2026

Guardian Warns Bus Fare Cap Policy Will Worsen ‘Effects of Climate Crisis’

This may well win the Guido Gold Medal for Peak Guardian Journalism: “The world’s most vulnerable people will be put at risk by Andy Burnham’s decision to use the aid budget to pay for cheaper bus fares in England, charities have said… experts say it will also leave people in the poorest parts of the…

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Guido Fawkes22 Jul 2026

Top Energy Department Mandarin Showers Praise on “Inspiration” Ed Miliband

The Permanent Secretary at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Jonathan Brearley, can barely contain his excitement at the arrival of Miatta Fahnbulleh to the department, or his admiration for Ed Miliband. What are the impartiality requirements again? In a Linkedin post Brearley, who used to be CEO of Ofgem until recently, gushed…

Environment
Guido Fawkes22 Jul 2026

WATCH: Transport Secretary Struggles to Explain How Bus Fare Cap Funding Will Work

The Transport Secretary has been unable to explain how Burnham’s £2 bus fare cap – a Tory policy – will be funded. A Downing Street release states it will be majority funded by converting £400 million international climate finance grants into loans… Heidi Alexander said: “The detail of it needs to be worked through. But…

PoliticsEnvironment
Guido Fawkes21 Jul 2026

Every Eco-Mad Energy Policy Backed by Burnham’s New Net Zero Secretary

Co-conspirators will be familiar with Miatta Fahnbulleh. She is now the Energy Secretary… Fahnbulleh supports faster imposition of Net Zero among other things: 2019: “The first step would be a global Green New Deal: a massive mobilization of resources to decarbonize and at the same time create millions of jobs and lift living standards. The…

Environment
Guido Fawkes17 Jul 2026

POLL: Labour Set to Win Easily in Greater Manchester

New polling in Manchester from YouGov: Labour candidate Bev Craig is set to beat Reform UK’s Sian Astley by 62% to 38% in the second round of the Greater Manchester mayoral by-election Craig also leads on first preference votes, taking 38% to Astley’s 24%, with the Greens’ Geraldine Coggins in third on 17% By 44%…

PoliticsEnvironmentReform
Guido Fawkes15 Jul 2026

Newest Green MP Hires Staff for Less Than the UK Living Wage

The Green Party’s newest MP is hiring staff for under the average Living Wage. Shocking… Hannah Spencer is hiring a parliamentary officer for between £25,528 – £32,550. The lower amount for working in Manchester, the upper for London… The UK Living Wage as stated by the campaign, however, is £26,227.50 outside of London for a…

PoliticsEnvironment
Guido Fawkes14 Jul 2026

Net Zero Backers Evade Badenoch’s Purge of Tory Wets

Kemi Badenoch has begun her purge of the wets, with Theresa May’s former chief of staff Gavin Barwell finally dumped earlier this week after he spent months moaning about the Tories becoming a “Reform tribute act“. The Tories say all parliamentary candidates need to back plans to scrap net zero and leave the ECHR. A…

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Guido Fawkes14 Jul 2026

Multi-Million Pound Labour Donor & Green Energy Mogul Privately Lobbied Miliband on Policy

One of Labour’s biggest donors has enjoyed a private line into the top of Ed Miliband’s department and the Energy Secretary himself. On policy matters highly relevant to his company… Dale Vince, a green energy mogul, has donated more than £6 million to the Labour Party since 2013 (most of which came after 2021) via…

Environment
Guido Fawkes14 Jul 2026

UK Cyber Defence Could Be Curtailed Over Environmental Concerns After ICJ Opinion

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued an advisory opinion on climate change and (for some reason) military cyber operations. Apparently they’re linked… The opinion states that countries must give greater weight to environmental concerns when conducting cyber warfare. As one analyst puts it: “With respect to cyber operations, many such operations might have…

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Guido Fawkes14 Jul 2026

WATCH: Nandy Doesn’t Realise That Her Department Wants to Promote BBC Above Independent Press

Lisa Nandy doesn’t appear to understand her own new proposals to starve independent news publishers and promote state-owned ones. Know-nothing Nandy… At the Culture, Media, and Sport Select Committee yesterday Damian Hinds asked about the potential problems within the Media Green Paper that could see prominence for ‘Public Service Broadcasters’ but not commercial news publishers.…

Environment
Guido Fawkes13 Jul 2026

Civil Servants Told to Use ‘Low-Water Plants’ and Avoid Air Conditioning When Working From Home to Help Net Zero

All civil servants at the Care Quality Commission, which is responsible for regulating all health and social care services in England, have been handed a “practical guide to help colleagues reduce their carbon footprint while working from home.” Britain’s wokest and laziest quango strikes again… Staff have been told the guide was written after three…

Environment
Guido Fawkes8 Jul 2026

Zia Yusuf: If Other Parties Thought They Could Win, They Would Stand in Clacton

Zia Yusuf has claimed that the boycott of a Clacton by-election by Labour, Tories, Greens, and LibDems is only because they know they would lose to Farage. He told BBC Breakfast: “The legitimacy of those elections is not determined by which parties coordinate together to not stand candidates. It is very much down to the…

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