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The Bigger Picture: A-levels, Inflation & Who Is Governing Britain?

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: A-levels, Inflation & Who Is Governing Britain?
As the first proper A-level results arrive since 2019, political commentator Mike Indian explains how education must be the answer to solving the UK's productivity puzzle. In the wake of the latest rise in inflation, he says that targeted support and state intervention will be needed to get things back onto an even keel. And with the Tory leadership contest continuing, he asks where the big, transformative ideas are and wonders if an absent Boris Johnson is simply abrogating responsibility.
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The Bigger Picture: Curing Basketcase Britain, The Commonwealth Games & Immigration Thriving Post-Brexit

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The Bigger Picture: Curing Basketcase Britain, The Commonwealth Games & Immigration Thriving Post-Brexit
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University explains why bold market reform is needed to solve the problems of "basketcase Britain", before it is too late. He reflects on the success of the Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, particularly the spectacular opening and closing ceremonies and considers where the future of the Games – and the Commonwealth – might lie. And he shows how immigration is thriving in the wake of Brexit though points out that infrastructure planning must be tackled seriously and quickly.
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Professor Tim Evans

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The Business Of Film: Bullet Train, Luck & 13 Lives

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The Business Of Film

The Business Of Film: Bullet Train, Luck & 13 Lives
James Cameron-Wilson looks at the UK box office chart, with takings down 20% week-on-week. At #1 is tongue-in-cheek thriller Bullet Train, starring Brad Pitt, but it only took £2.9m in an extended weekend. With no other new films, James turned to streaming services. On Apple+ is Skydance Animation's Luck, with the voices of Simon Pegg and others. At times delightful, it ends up being a mixed bag, says James. He was more positive about Amazon Prime's 13 Lives in which director Ron Howard tells the true story of the cave rescue of a group of Thai schoolboys. Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell are among the cast.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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The Business of Film: DC League of Superpets, Rogue Agent & Prizefighter

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: DC League of Superpets, Rogue Agent & Prizefighter
James Cameron-Wilson gives Simon Rose the lowdown on the latest UK box office, wilting 8% in the heat but already ahead of 2021's total take. With the widest release ever for an animated feature, DC League of Superpets takes £2.6m in the #1 spot. James found it consistently funny for young and old alike. He thought Netflix's true-life spy tale Rogue Agent with Gemma Arterton and James Norton gripping but was less impressed with Amazon Prime's true story Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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The Business of Film: Nope, Man Without A Star & Prey

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The Business of Film: Nope, Man Without A Star & Prey
James Cameron-Wilson reflects on the UK box office down for the 3rd week with a loss of 26%. Jordan Peele's "deliciously strange" Nope, starring Daniel Kaluuya, is at #1 with a take of £1.9m. James's DVD of the week is the Blu-Ray release of King Vidor's 1955 Western Man Without A Star, starring Kirk Douglas. And on Disney+ he found Prey a feminist action thriller which, although better than the rest of the franchise, ultimately just becomes another Predator film.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Biggest Interest Rate Hike In 27 Years

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Biggest Interest Rate Hike In 27 Years
Laith Khalaf of A J Bell explains why there was muted market reaction to the Bank of England's MPC increasing interest rates to 1.75%, the biggest increase in 27 years. With MPC members voting 8-1 in favour of the increase, Laith thought the Bank's forecast of 13% CPI inflation this winter showed them to be yet again behind the curve. If Liz Truss wins the Conservative Party leadership contest, Laith wondered if the MPC's remit – to keep inflation to 2% – might be under review.
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Laith Khalaf

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The Financial Outlook For Personal Investors: US inflation, UK GDP and political uncertainty

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook For Personal Investors: US inflation, UK GDP and political uncertainty
Victoria Scholar of Interactive Investor explains why markets viewed the lastest US inflation numbers – softening to 8.5% – so positively. She discusses what might be expected from the UK's GDP figures. She explains why the current political uncertainty in the UK – with the two very different approaches espoused by the candidates – is making the country a difficult place to invest, suggesting that, for the time being, UK markets are in a holding pattern.
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Victoria Scholar

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Jet fuel from sunlight, tech mattresses & spider micro-cranes

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Jet fuel from sunlight, tech mattresses & spider micro-cranes
Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose of plans to create jet fuel from sunlight. Students have built an e-car that sucks CO2 from the air, there's a tech mattress to help with sleep, Google's new AR glasses, a way to use dead spiders to lift tiny objects, a wearable fitness tracker that detects Covid 2 days before symptoms appear and a faster, more efficient way to dig tunnels - with a big catch.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Top theme park smells, DNA motors and safe scooter steering

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Top theme park smells, DNA motors and safe scooter steering
Steve Caplin talks tech with Simon Rose, giving us the top theme park artificial smells, including rotting flesh, penguin vomit and Kylie Minogue's breath. In addition, there are motors made of DNA, how small-wheeled scooters can be made more stable, reusable coffee pods, car wheels able to turn 80 degrees, replacing microplastics with silk and an affordable electric bike.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Wordle weirdness, AI-hologram funerals, sausage stars & woodless pencils

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Wordle weirdness, AI-hologram funerals, sausage stars & woodless pencils
Steve Caplin talks tech with Simon Rose, warning all Zoom users they should update the app. He links it to Wordle, where there are now books and poems. There's also a car park machine that only talks Welsh, a funeral where guests could quiz the deceased, problems with Meta's chatbot, the physicist who convinced people chorizo was a star, woodless pencils, three different stories about robot dogs and a paper battery that is biodegradable.
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Steve Caplin

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