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The Bigger Picture: UK Is Becoming Poor, War On The Rich Is Disastrous & NHS In Permacrisis

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: UK Is Becoming Poor, War On The  Rich Is Disastrous & NHS In Permacrisis
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University says that we must face the fact that Britain is going the way of Argentina and becoming a poor country. The war on the ultra-rich, he points out, will spell disaster for the UK's public finances. And it is surely time we recognised that the NHS is in a state of permanent crisis and that a Royal Commission should be set up to find a solution.
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Professor Tim Evans


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The Bigger Picture: Where is Brexit's golden age, 200 years of housing trends & 100 years of the BBC

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Where is Brexit's golden age, 200 years of housing trends & 100 years of the BBC
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University wonders where and what are the benefits of Brexit, three years after the UK left the European Union. He looks at a fascinating set of numbers analysing housing trends over the past two hundred years. And, 100 years since the founding of the BBC, he explains why he admires the BBC, despite – or because of – its ability to irritate all sides equally at once.
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Professor Tim Evans


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The Bigger Picture: Why Rishi Sunak needs to be more ruthless

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Why Rishi Sunak needs to be more ruthless
Political commentator Mike Indian looks at the political lie of the land after Rishi Sunak's first 100 days as Prime Minister. While believing he did the right thing when it came to Nadhim Zahawi, Mike feels that the Prime Minister needs to show more ruthlessness when it comes to his own party. As for the country as a whole, the current batch of strikes simply feed into the picture that nothing in Britain is working as it should.
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Mike Indian


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The Business of Film: A Man Called Otto, Till, Raymond & Ray

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: A Man Called Otto, Till, Raymond & Ray
James Cameron-Wilson takes Simon Rose through the latest box office figures, down 21% on last week. A Man Called Otto with Tom Hanks enters at #4 with £1.1m; James found himself captivated by the film. The true-life lynching drama Till is at #6. While the story needs telling, James did find it somewhat overlong. Streaming on Apple TV+ is Raymond & Ray with Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke playing estranged brothers. He found the dialogue fake and the movie too full of eccentrics.
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James Cameron-Wilson


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The Business of Film: M3GAN, Babylon, A Man Called Otto, Empire of Light & Tár

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: M3GAN, Babylon, A Man Called Otto, Empire of Light & Tár
James Cameron-Wilson canters through a b.o. down 33%. #2 is comic thriller M3GAN about a robotic doll which James thought funny and thought-provoking. Babylon, fun but way too long is doing poorly at #3 while Empire of Light, with Sam Mendes directing his own script is #7, depsite Olivia Coleman, Colin Firth and Toby Jones. James loved it, being in seventh heaven, as he was with Tár at #8 with Cate Blanchett playing a leading conductor. James found it mind-blowingly eloquent and that it made him "proud to be human".
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James Cameron-Wilson


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The Business of Film: Pathaan, Plane, The Fabelmans & The Wandering Earth 2

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Pathaan, Plane, The Fabelmans & The Wandering Earth 2
James Cameron-Wilson on the UK box office, up 18% week-on-week. With Avatar 2 still #1, Hindi film Pathaan is #2 while #3 is Gerard Butler thriller Plane, which James found gripping and great fun. Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans is #4, which James thought playful and funny, with a dark undertone. Chinese film The Wandering Earth 2 makes #9 while James also enjoyed Netflix's Bank of Dave about Dave Fishwick taking on the banking establishment, despite it being cliche-ridden.
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James Cameron-Wilson


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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: My Portfolio with Lord Lee — The long view (REPLAY)

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: My Portfolio with Lord Lee — The long view (REPLAY)
Simon Rose takes a well-earned break this week, so we bring you his interview with Lord Lee, author of 'How to Make a Million Slowly', as recorded nearly six years ago. At that time, 1 February 2017, it had been an intriguing start to the year for investors with sterling hitting new lows, driving the stockmarket to a record high. Lord Lee cautioned that forecasting the future direction of markets is a tricky business but for investors who maintain a long term view, the importance of growing dividends and hard assets continues to stand out.
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Lord Lee


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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Tech sector news and prospects

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Tech sector news and prospects
Victoria Scholar of Interactive Investor updates Simon Rose on the latest news from the tech sector. Tesla's shares jumped on strong earnings, Microsoft had mixed results and Netflix performed better than expected. She discusses the figures and explains that, although 2022's woes for tech shares may have been overdone, investors in the sector in 2023 are still likely to be in for a bumpy ride.
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Victoria Scholar


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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI book narration & impressionism, CCTV-confusing sweaters & tech pot plants

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: AI book narration & impressionism, CCTV-confusing sweaters & tech pot plants
Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about a UK self-driving bus & hydrogen-powered plane, about AI narrating Apple books and impersonating anybody after 3 seconds, about jumpers that can confuse facial recognition tech, an American SUV for dangerous school runs, electrified spoons, a GE pot plant to purify the air and how Ferrari are making ther electric cars produce the familiar petrol engine sound.
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Steve Caplin


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Gadgets & Gizmos: Bringing back dodos, learning better and the latest AI innovations

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Bringing back dodos, learning better and the latest AI innovations
It's gadget time with Steve Caplin, who tells Simon Rose about plans to reintroduce genetically-engineered dodos to Mauritius. There's also news of journalists being replaced with AI, music being generated by text and an audio prompt, AI passing the US law exams, how a flashing light can help you learn faster, Google laying off massage therapists, a robot to pick flowers, an app for when your phone battery is dying and why stargazing may soon become a thing of the past.
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Steve Caplin


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