The facts behind the Daily Mail's energy fury

摘要

The Daily Mail does not knowingly let the facts get in the way of a good story. If that story lets it grind two of its axes at once so much the better. Hence the front-page splash with the headline "Hidden green tax in fuel bills" in mid-June. The paper makes no secret of its dislike of either the coalition or the prime minister's green betrayal of the true blue. Here was an opportunity to batter both. Armed with a truncheon provided by Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, it laid into both as robustly as any Punch. To reinforce its attack it enlisted the support of the increasingly cantankerous Andrew Turnbull, the former cabinet secretary turned climate change sceptic.