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Alex Varley-Winter

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  • Head of Investigative Reporting, Transparency Task Force and Journalist, Freelance
London
As seen in: The Daily Mirror, The Times, Computer Weekly, DeSmog, Byline Times, Islington Tribune, OnTheWight, The Bristol Cable, DeSmog UK
Covers:  Justice, climate change, crime & corruption stories, parliamentary committees, court or tribunal hearings, tech. Broad interests within investigative journalism.
Investigative Reporting, freelance & for @TransparencyTF | Views own | Email alex.v.winter@pm.me

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TTF Blog: 3 August 2020

TTF Blog: 3 August 2020

MPs Launch Pension Scams Inquiry & Call for Evidence​ by Alex Varley-Winter, TTF's Head of Media Relations & …

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Paying the Polluter: UK feels the Heat on £17bn aid to Fossil Fuel Giants - Byline Times

Paying the Polluter: UK feels the Heat on £17bn aid to Fossil Fuel Giants - Byline Times

Independent government advisors have revealed fresh evidence of the UK's failure to tackle pollution, as part…

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Spy Kids - Gambling with Children's Lives - Byline Times

Spy Kids - Gambling with Children's Lives - Byline Times

BylineTimes has obtained more detail of a sole police whistle-blowing claim, recently raised in the House of …

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Ministers' "Power Grab" from Doctors over Brexit Medicine Shortages - Byline Times

Ministers' "Power Grab" from Doctors over Brexit Medicine Shortages - Byline Times

In what MP Jonathan Ashworth calls 'an extraordinary power grab' from doctors, the Government passed its 'Ser…

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'No Win No Fee' case left me homeless after £1m bill from former lawyers

'No Win No Fee' case left me homeless after £1m bill from former lawyers

A routine home insurance claim has escalated into a 15-year legal nightmare ...

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In 'post truth' just what is Putin up to? Luke Harding sheds some light at the Byline Festival.

In 'post truth' just what is Putin up to? Luke Harding sheds some light at the Byline Festival.

At a recent Byline Insider event in London, Luke Harding, a Royal correspondent then foreign correspondent fo…

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PODCAST - Systemic failure to fight fraud across watchdogs, MPs told

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By Alex Varley-Winter Verified, TTF’s Head, Rachel Mortimer Verified, Mark Conrad
| Substack
Susan Flood, victim of the Ark scheme by Alex Varley-Winter, TTF’s Head of Media Relations & Investigative Reporting Blistering victim testimony on the impact of investment fraud and regulatory failure in the UK, was last week given to MPs on Parliament’s Pension Scams Inquiry, a probe TTF campaigned for. You can watch the session here.
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Should we be adding oxygen into the soil?

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By Alex Varley-Winter Verified
| footprintmag.net
Farmers are being told to drop the plough. Current methods of tilling the soil and using synthetic fertilisers are bad news for greenhouse gas emissions. Ploughing forwards Scientists, robotics experts and farmers are all increasingly pursuing means to boost the health of soil without turning it over. This is because research shows that when farms expose soil to the air, they impede the sequestering of CO2—the natural removal of carbon from the atmosphere.
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Under Rising Pressure on Climate, JPMorgan Rejects Shareholder Calls to Disclose Full Carbon Footprint

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By Alex Varley-Winter Verified
| desmogblog.com
America’s largest bank is shunning calls from shareholders to disclose its full emissions, despite warnings from its own economists that “catastrophic” climate change could end up threatening human life “as we know it.” JPMorgan Chase, which a coalition of U.S. environmental groups recently claimed is the world’s largest financer of fossil fuels, has instructed its shareholders to vote down a proposal for the bank to report the emissions of its lending activities at its upcoming annual...
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Hyperlocal reporting OntheWight

Have you ever used a typewriter?

No but I think it would be a good discipline.

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It's making it more interactive.
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