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Gadgets & Gizmos: The 500th edition replay — the good, the bad and the truly weird from ten years of the show

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The 500th edition replay — the good, the bad and the truly weird from ten years of the show
Recorded in February this year for the 500th show, Steve Caplin takes a look back at some of the highlights of ten years of Gadgets & Gizmos. He covers sprayable sleep, cows imitating zebras to ward off mosquitoes, crows collecting cigarette butts, NFTs, self-parking slippers, KFC chicken-tasting nail polish, the first human head transplant, the Skunklock noxious bike lock, Refridgerating, the robot dog flamethrower, ant populated gin and how to make pain relief pills 10 times more effective.
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The Bigger Picture: The crumbling of Britain's welfare state & Trump's extraordinary first 6 months

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: The crumbling of Britain's welfare state & Trump's extraordinary first 6 months
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University says that the wheels are coming off the welfare project that began in the early 20th century. The state can no longer do it all and either massive changes are made proactively or it will happen reactively through a money market crisis. Sadly, few politicians show the necessary pragmatism and we may already be seeing the early signs of a legitimation crisis. He also looks at Donald Trump. The domestic picture is mixed but, internationally, he cannot remember a US President moving so many dials so rapidly and in such significant ways.
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Professor Tim Evans

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Foxtons & Record plc

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Foxtons & Record plc
Chloe Wong Yun Shing of Edison Group looks at London estate agency Foxtons, which operates in lettings, sales and financial services. It has 6% of the market and expects to move beyond London through acquisitions. It is pivoting towards lettings, which will reduce cyclical volatility. Edison's analysts feel the shares are only half their fair value. Record plc is a specialist asset manager for institutions focussing on currency and derivative management. While full year results saw a drop in revenue and profits, assets under management remained solid at over $100m. It's a cash-generative business with no debt and a yield of 8% supports the shares.
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Chloe Wong Yun Shing

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The Business of Film: 28 Years Later, Elio & Deep Cover

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: 28 Years Later, Elio & Deep Cover
James Cameron-Wilson waxes lyrical about #1 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle's first film in 6 years. It's 23 years since 28 Days Later and the zombie horror is as fresh as ever, with the likes of Ralph Fienes and Jodie Comer starring in the third in the series, which begins on Lindisfarne. The film has been doing incredibly well wherever it has opened. #3 Elio, however, has had the worst opening ever for Pixar. A children's sci-fi animated adventure, James found himself unmoved while the kids seeing it were far from being gripped. On Amazon Prime, his hopes for the supposedly funny film about improv actors involved in police stings, Deep Cover, were soon dashed, despite the presence of Orlando Bloom and Sean Bean. It simply isn't funny enough.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: RoboTaxis, Iran & Scottish independence & lumbering velociraptors

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Gadgets & Gizmos: RoboTaxis, Iran & Scottish independence & lumbering velociraptors
Steve Caplin expresses surprise that Elon Musk (or his lawyers) claims not to use a computer, despite previous contrary evidence. Tesla has launched its RoboTaxis while Amazon's Zoox intends making 10,000 robotaxis in a year. Perplexity AI is being sued by the BBC. A Chinese student was arrested in the UK for using an SMS blaster to scam people. A new bike helmet has a way of charging bike lights. An internet blackout in Iran caused 80 social media accounts supporting Scottish independence to go down. UK adults are using their phones more than their TVs for the first time. And Liverpool scientists reckon that dinosaurs were 5 times slower than previously thought.
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Steve Caplin

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The Business of Film: How To Train Your Dragon, Straw & Darling

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The Business of Film: How To Train Your Dragon, Straw & Darling
James Cameron-Wilson finds the live-action remake of #1 How To Train Your Dragon a disappointment, lacking much of the original's charm. He points out that the perfectly woven farce The Wedding Banquet is still around, suggesting people catch it while they can. On Netflix, he watched Straw, a state-of-the-nation melodrama from the phenomenally successful Tyler Perry. But while it has some nice moments, it's formulaic and unrealistic. He much admires the beautiful restoration of Darling, 1965's satire of Britain in the swinging 60s. Starring Dirk Bogarde and Julie Christie as a self-obsessed model, it has sparkling dialogue and won Oscars for costumes, script and for Christie. The extras are great too.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI music for bots, Trump's mobiles & solutions for underarm odour and baldness

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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI music for bots, Trump's mobiles & solutions for underarm odour and baldness
Steve Caplin discusses more to do with AI: researchers have discovered that relying on it makes you stupid; an engineer found it can't play chess; AI-generated music is mostly listened to by bots; Meta's AI is making people's searches for advice public; and Meta itself is apparently offering $100m sign-up fees. Google's new videoconferencing system is now available. Donald Trump is selling gold mobile phones. There's a new source of gold – but it's impossible to get at it. And scientists have found solutions to underarm odour and male pattern baldness.
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Steve Caplin

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The Bigger Picture: The G7 meeting, the grooming gang inquiry & the decriminalisation of abortion

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The Bigger Picture: The G7 meeting, the grooming gang inquiry & the decriminalisation of abortion
Political commentator Mike Indian discusses the G7 meeting with Donald Trump to the fore. He doesn't believe the vaunted UK trade deal with the US is the full thing but, more important, were the discussions on Ukraine and the Middle East. Mike also ponders whether the G7 is becoming less relevant as a body. He turns to the grooming gang inquiry, the latest in a long-running, disappointing saga. The terms of the inquiry and the timescale will be vital. As with the decriminalisation of abortion, Mike laments the toxicity of these and many other current issues. Political discourse is getting angrier and consensus ever harder to find: this is not helpful for democracy.
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Mike Indian

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Market reaction to the Middle East conflict

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Market reaction to the Middle East conflict
Russ Mould of A J Bell, declaring himself no expert in geopolitics, is suprised that markets have not put a bigger risk premium on oil in the past few days. Clearly investors are hopeful that there is not going to be a major escalation. He discusses the rise in the gold price, up 46% in a year in dollar terms, pointing out how expensive it is historically compared to oil and various other commodities. Those investors who fear inflation will probably take a different view on how to structure their portfolios than those who are more worried about a slowdown, recession or even debt deflation.
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Russ Mould

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The Bigger Picture: The UK's Doom Loop, "Return To Growth" & Starmer's backing of nuclear power

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: The UK's Doom Loop, "Return To Growth" & Starmer's backing of nuclear power
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University believes that the UK is now in a doom loop. With no coherent strategy, Rachel Reeves is digging us ever deeper into a hole, borrowing massively with no attempt to improve productivity or encourage growth. No wonder capital and talent is fleeing. For anyone wondering how we might do things differently in a politically viable way, reducing the state and improving state services, Tim recommends Lord Moynihan's very readable work, Return to Growth. And he finds fascinating the 180-degree ideological shift by many in Labour when it comes to our civil nuclear programme.
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Professor Tim Evans

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