Alan Rusbridger is very coy about whether the Guardian makes money from fossil fuel companies, despite campaigning for the Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation to divest their investments from them. In a recent Q&A, Rusbridger wriggled around the straightforward “Will The Guardian refuse advertising from fosil fuel companies?” question, claiming that his commercial director “didn’t think we took vast sums from fossil fuel companies.”

Funny, then, that the coal mining company Anglo American both sponsors the Guardian’s “social impact hub” and pays for a whole “partner zone” worth of “advertisement features” within the Guardian’s “sustainable business” section.

Anglo American is one of the fossil fuel companies in which the Gates Foundations invests…