According to The Spectator magazine “Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator”

According to Toby’s article in the Spectator today:

On Sunday, the BBC did something unusual. It invited Luke Johnson, a climate contrarian, to join a panel with Laura Kuenssberg to discuss net zero. As followers of this debate will know, the BBC’s editorial policy unit issued guidance to staff in 2018 saying: ‘As climate change is accepted as happening, you do not need a “denier” to balance the debate.’ Although it did allow for exceptions to this rule: ‘There are occasions where contrarians and sceptics should be included within climate change and sustainability debates.’ Presumably this was one such occasion.

Here’s a picture of the “panel” he refers to:

Toby continues:

The other two people on the panel – Chris Packham and Layla Moran – are members of the climate emergency camp, so there was no pretence of ‘balance’. At one point, the exchange between Johnson and Packham became heated and when the latter invoked the recent downpour in Dubai as well as extensive wildfires in the ‘global south’, as evidence of the effect of anthropogenic global warming, Johnson challenged him to come up with evidence that extreme weather was caused by carbon emissions.

‘It doesn’t come from Toby Young’s Daily Septic [sic], which is basically put together by a bunch of professionals with close affiliations to the fossil fuel industry,’ replied Packham. ‘It comes from something called science.’

According to Mr. Young on X (formerly Twitter) yesterday:

In another Xweet Toby phrased things slightly differently, a sentiment echoed by Daily Sceptic Environment Editor Chris Morrison:

As you can see, “Snow White” is not entirely happy with the content of some of Mr. Morrison’s fantasy fiction published in the Daily Sceptic.

According to Companies House Toby Young is associated with Luke Johnson as well as Daily Sceptic Editor Will Jones. They are all directors of Skeptics Limited:

Isn’t it strange that Toby didn’t mentioned that fact in his Spectator article or on XTwitter?

Isn’t it strange that the BBC platforms a “climate contrarian” associated with the Daily Sceptic?

Isn’t it strange that The Spectator isn’t discussing what Layla Moran had to say?

Watch this space!