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Mar 11, 2024 | 
yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Geoff Thompson
Gary Stevenson was Citibank’s (and possibly the world’s) most successful trader in 2011. He made himself a millionaire in his mid-20s, before becoming disillusioned with the profession. A highly intelligent working-class boy from a low-income family with a remarkable gift for mathematics, his memoir The Trading Game: A Confession, charts his journey from trader to inequality economist and campaigner.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Geoff Thompson
Mr Bates v The Post Office shone a light on how the Post Office was run, and the flaws in management that allowed the scandal to happen. But it also highlights a wider issue of how the government buys goods and services. We now learn that the government knew in 2016 that the Post Office had pulled a covert investigation that could have allowed sub-postmasters accused of theft or fraud to prove their innocence.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Geoff Thompson
Sunday 11 February marks Women in Science Day. The International Day of Women and Girls in Science was instituted by the United Nations General Assembly to encourage the fully inclusive equal access and involvement of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This occasion is observed annually and also serves to promote a vital aspect of the UN’s sustainable development goals.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Geoff Thompson
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Geoff Thompson
On 28 November 2023, before a conference audience representing countries of migrant origin, transit and destination, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen launched a Global Alliance to Counter Migrant Smuggling. This is a major policy initiative not just within the EU but with an intent for global cooperation to put an end to what von der Leyen described as the “criminal business” of smuggling human beings.
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Nov 18, 2023 | 
yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Geoff Thompson
If a problem had a simple solution, it would never become a serious problem. The solution would quickly be applied and the problem would be solved. Populists know how attractive this can sound. They gain power by claiming they have simple solutions to problems that worry people. Often these ‘problems’ are created by the populists themselves, aided and abetted by a client media. A classic example is immigration in the 1980s.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Geoff Thompson |Alice Brennan |Tim Roxburgh |Benjamin Sveen |Ingrid Wagner |Gina McKeon | +2 more
Even after the black summer Australians have just endured, it's not bushfires that's keeping the nation's insurers awake at night. Climate change is bringing cyclones further south - towards highly populated areas like Brisbane, the Gold Coast and northern NSW. Insurers are warning that unless the Federal Government takes drastic action, parts of the country may even become uninsurable. And as Geoff Thompson discovers, it's not some threat on the horizon - the conditions are already here.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Geoff Thompson |Benjamin Sveen |Connie Agius |Ingrid Wagner |Leila Shunnar |Tim Jenkins | +2 more
ALICE BRENNAN: Hi there, Alice Brennan here, welcome to Background Briefing. This week we are setting sail on the high seas. RONBERT BIBAT: We are start now scraping the dust. Chipping the rust. Until after chipping we sweeping up, after sweeping we mop. ALICE BRENNAN: Men in blue overalls and white hard hats look like mini-figures swallowed by a giant mechanical beast. Ridged red walls of steel tower around them - 17 metres high. RONBERT BIBAT: Yes.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Geoff Thompson |Benjamin Sveen |Ingrid Wagner |Leila Shunnar |Tim Jenkins |Alex Mann | +1 more
ALICE BRENNAN: Hey there Alice Brennan here - welcome to Background Briefing. We put Australia's best investigations into your pod feed every single week. Today on the show, we're going to talk about dominoes. A line of them to be precise... Because to understand the precarious economic game Australia is playing in this coronavirus-induced global recession... We all need to think of ourselves... all of us... as a long line of dominoes... linked together by debt.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Andy Burns |Geoff Thompson |Hagar Cohen |Jess Davis |Katherine Gregory |Meghna Bali | +8 more
ALICE BRENNAN: Hey there, Alice Brennan here. Like most of you listening I'm stuck at home. Self isolating. It's a pretty intense time for everyone. And I know lots of you are feeling alone and scared and sad. You don't need more grief right now....So this week on the show we're doing something a little bit different ...our team of reporters has set out to investigate something totally new. ...
