Adam Barnett

Adam is an investigative journalist and political commentator whose work has been published in The Guardian, Politico, the Financial Times and Private Eye. He is UK News Reporter at DeSmog covering climate change, corporate greenwashing, and misinformation. He writes a column on politics for the Big Issue and writes features for Byline Times and others.

Adam is a former Staff Writer at Left Foot Forward and BBC Local Democracy Reporter. He has reported from Turkey, the US and Egypt, and was a researcher on the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary ‘Strippers, Spies and Russian Money’ (2023).

Adam started his career in local newspapers, reporting on Town Hall corruption, and has covered news and politics including the rise of populism, Brexit, terrorism, and climate change.

He has reported for The Guardian, the i paper, The Telegraph, The Mirror, MailOnline, The Times and The Independent, and written columns and features for Little Atoms, Politics.co.uk, The Lead, The Big Issue, New Statesman, Progress, Open Democracy, Dissent and Prospect.

Praise for Adam’s work:
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‘Savage & elegant argument … Scorching and rightly indignant’ ​- Ian Dunt, author of ‘How to Be a Liberal’ and ‘How Westminster Works – And Why it Doesn’t’

‘That is such a good line that I am totally stealing it’ ​– Hugo Rifkind, Times columnist

‘Wonderfully talented’  ​– Padraig Reidy, Editor of Little Atoms

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