How easy is it for the junktanks on Tufton Street to be Downing Street’s outriders and put completely bogus ‘research’ into the rightwing papers of the UK about #NetZero? And do they get away with it?
Transparency as to who funds your research is a basic given in the world of academic university research. I know because I worked for over a decade as a research administrator helping academics to get funding and report their findings as well as spending.
That’s why I find the Tufton Street junktanks who claim to carry out research and policy work so dubious and I’m stunned at how their place in our modern political system is unquestioned by the mainstream media.
Next time you’re watching BBC Politics Live and they have a pundit on from a junktank, note down the organisation and check how transparent they really are here:
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