Dodgy donors, Diane Abbott and digital currency
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Michael Gove is rolling out his new definition of extremism this week, to the chagrin of people across the political spectrum. Ed and George weigh in on whether this will have any impact in keeping the UK safe, or whether it will threaten to divide the country further.
Unfortunately for Gove, a major Tory donor undermined the whole message with his own extreme comments about Diane Abbott. Should they return his £10m donation? And why didn’t they consult their most senior Black female member before responding to this new crisis?
And the ‘crypto-winter’ is over: Bitcoin is back. Is the boom here to stay, and what does it mean for governments around the world?
Producer: Rosie Stopher
Production support: Miriam Hall
Executive Producers: Dino Sofos and Ellie Clifford
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| 0:00.0 | At G.S.K, we believe that prevention is the best medicine. Prevention is pioneering new medicines to reduce |
| 0:07.3 | HIV transmission, applying decades of experience and asthma control to limit long-term lung damage or stopping chronic |
| 0:14.3 | conditions from progressing to most serious complications because preventing disease |
| 0:18.3 | is the best possible outcome for all of us and is why G.S.K. unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of |
| 0:25.7 | disease together. Visit gsk.com to learn more. |
| 0:30.7 | B.P. is working to roll out EV charging hubs in the UK and we're keeping oil and gas |
| 0:36.2 | flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:41.8 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:44.7 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment |
| 0:47.4 | that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses |
| 0:50.6 | from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:56.0 | BP.com slash and not all. This episode is brought to you by G.S.K. |
| 1:05.0 | We're lucky to live in a time when many of us can access medicine when we become ill, |
| 1:08.5 | but even better than recovering from being unwell is not getting ill in the first place. |
| 1:13.2 | Yes, G.S.K believes that prevention is the best medicine and that's why they've built one of the |
| 1:18.3 | broadest vaccine portfolios in the world. |
| 1:20.8 | G.S.K. say that prevention to them means pioneering new medicines to reduce HIV transmission |
| 1:26.3 | or stopping chronic conditions from progressing to more serious complications. |
| 1:30.5 | That's because preventing disease is the best possible outcome for all of us and that's why G.S.K. unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. |
| 1:40.0 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. This is political currency with Ed balls and George Osborne. So it's been a busy week. |
| 2:10.0 | So it's been a busy week. |
| 2:12.0 | In fact you have to go and break from our recording to do a |
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