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Right turn on green: is the Telegraph changing its tune on the climate?

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The Telegraph, the UK's leading right-wing publication and a longtime critic of green policies, recently published articles warning of serious climate risks—warming threatening homes, nature, and food security. Per The Guardian, the pieces, written after destructive wildfires in Suffolk last week, prompted Conservative politician Kemi Badenoch to defend her net-zero stance and raised eyebrows among readers, given the Telegraph's historical skepticism of climate policies.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/05/telegraph-c...

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