Sinopsis
Phil Dobbie's Saturday night show on LoveSport Radio - no sport, just lots of talk. 10pm-1am on 558AM and DAB in and around London. RSS: http://www.spreaker.com/show/2872012/episodes/feed
Episodios
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Jon Danzig - the Brexit tide is turnining
01/05/2018 Duración: 17minJournalist and Remain Campainger Jon Danzig suggests the tide is turning for Brexit - if there was another referendum the result would be very different. If that's the case, shouldn't we vote and do what people want now? That Saturday Night Thing with Phil Dobbie, LoveSport Radio 558AM and DAB in London, online at http://lovesportradio.com
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John McCarthy (The Drum) on latest stats on our aversion to online ads
30/04/2018 Duración: 12min40% of us in this country don’t like online ads. It’s one of many statistics in a new study from Ofcom. I talk to The Drum’s John McCafrthy about what else the report tells us about our advertising and media consumption habits.
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Rodney Hobson - the Bank of England won’t be lifting rates in May
30/04/2018 Duración: 15minUntil last week the expectation was that interest rates would rise in the UK last month. As Rodney Hobson, author of Shares Made Simple, explains, weak growth data last week has put paid to that idea.
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Malcolm Jarvis, Cold calling firms are set for hefty fines
30/04/2018 Duración: 13minA new EU regulation kicks in next month which could see hefty fines for companies that contravene the requirements around data protection. Malcolm Jarvis explains how the GDPR regulations could impact the cold calling industry, in a week where Treasury Minister John Glen has said he wants a ban on cold-calling by the pensions industry, because there’s just too many scams.
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Karl Widerquist on a Universal Basic Income
30/04/2018 Duración: 17minIf you believe the reports in the media this week, Finland’s flirtation with a basic guaranteed income is to come to an end. I spoke to Karl Widerquist from the Basic Income Earth Network to understand the idea behind a basic income and to discover what, if anything, went wrong in Finland.
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Stilgherrian on how the Internet giants use our data
30/04/2018 Duración: 17minAustralian technologist journalist explains a project by Crikey.com.au to track how your online data is used and shared between online companies.
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Another resident sent packing – why Amber Rudd had to go
29/04/2018 Duración: 14minLisa Nops is an Australia, resident in the UK, married to her British husband with a handicapped child who holds a UK passport. A mistake when renewing her residency visa quickly resulted in a deportation visa. On LoveSport Radio on Saturday night she told me her tale, that was only resolved through a media appearance on BBC TV. It's another example of how harsh the government's Hostile Environment policy is, driven by deportation quotas. This - and other cases like it - is why Amber Rudd had to go.
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Friday 27th April 2018
29/04/2018 Duración: 02h57minFilling-in on a Friday night, with discussions on online advertising, cold calling, universal basic income, how your data is used and Windrush. Plus lots more.
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The Australia Report with David Campbell
23/04/2018 Duración: 14minHarry and Meghan to visit and Australia can't wait. Plus, cutting back on migrants. staring into space, a new way to power Bitcoin and South Australia, lets just call it Adelaide. David Campbell brings us up to date on what's happening down under, without the need for a doctor's visit.
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Richard Kazimer's US Report
23/04/2018 Duración: 17minThe world yawns at Comey's book; major court setbacks for Trump's lawyer, US UN Ambassador Nikki Haley bitch slaps the White House over suggestion she was 'confused' about Russian sanctions AND Sean Hannity and Alex Jones bite their own asses. Richard Kazimer gives a US update with attitude.
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A Commonwealth of Intolerance
23/04/2018 Duración: 11minAt the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in London last week the issue of human rights wasn't on the agenda. That didn't surprise rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, because it never is. And homosexuality remains illegal in the majority of Commonwealth countries.
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A Financial Transactions Tax
23/04/2018 Duración: 16minIt's been talked about for a while, and the Shadow Chancellor says it will happen under a Labour government - a tax on financial transactions. Economist Ann Pettifor explains that its not just a money-earner for the government, it's about changing behaviour.
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Windrush - the tip of the iceberg? With Harjap Bhangal
23/04/2018 Duración: 17minPhil Dobbie talks to immigration lawyer Harjap Bhangal about the rising Windrush scandal,l surrounding the deportations of UK residents. To what extent is this the result of the government's hostile environment policy? Who else is being wound up in what seems to be a very poorly applied application of a badly thought through policy?
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TESS and the search for extra terrestrials with Robert Massey
23/04/2018 Duración: 22minRobert Massey, Deputy Executive Director of the Royal Astronomical Society, explains the work of TESS, a satellite launched this week to look for life on other planets. And Phil asks listeners to suggest what our first line should be, if we ever approach extra terrestrials.
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Saturday 21st April 2018
23/04/2018 Duración: 03h09minLife in outer space, the Windrush controversy, do we need a Commonwealth, a financial transactions tax, Comey's book and a coil powered Bitcoin
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Thursday 19th April 2018
21/04/2018 Duración: 01h57minFilling in on id-morning on LoveSport 1am-1pm, looking at the days news, business, the hot weather, latest movies and Brexit.
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Australia Report
16/04/2018 Duración: 14minOn LoveSport 558AM on Saturday I spoke to @paulwallbank in Sydney about cricket rights, a massive defamation suit, a struggling government, a woman overboard and Optus' white Australia policy
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US Report with Richard Kazimer
16/04/2018 Duración: 15minRichard Kazimer talks to Phil Dobbie about the missile strikes, Michael Cohen's office raid, James Comey's memoirs, Paul Ryan's resignation and Mark Zuckerberg's testimony. Another fantastic week of news from the United States!
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Will Big Data Drive NHS Efficiency?
16/04/2018 Duración: 14minAt a conference last week, staged by The Spectator magazine, health minister Lord O’Shaughnessy made the case for using data to improve the efficiency of healthcare. I asked Nicola Perrin from the Wellcome Trust to describe how data will help.