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Alex Varley-Winter

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  • Head of Investigative Reporting, Transparency Task Force and Freelance Journalist, Freelance
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As seen in: Daily Mirror, The Times, Computer Weekly, DeSmog, Byline Times, Islington Tribune, OnTheWight, DeSmog UK, The Bristol Cable
Covers:  Justice, climate change, crime & corruption stories, parliamentary committees, court or tribunal hearings, tech. Broad interests within investigative journalism.
Head of investigative reporting @TransparencyTF | Freelance | 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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‘Nowhere is action needed more than in Bristol’: calls for Avon and Somerset’s next police and crime commissioner to get tough on financial crime

May 03, 2021  | 
By Alex Varley-Winter
 |  The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable A significant High Court judgment that brokers took bribes to push allegedly ruinous loans to farmers has fuelled campaigners’ demands for a change in approach to financial crime in our region. Spates of evictions and land-grabs scarred Britain as it exited the 2008 financial crash.
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PODCAST - Systemic failure to fight fraud across watchdogs, MPs told

Dec 03, 2020  | 
By Alex Varley-Winter , TTF’s Head , Rachel Mortimer , Mark Conrad
 |  Substack
Susan Flood, victim of the Ark schemeby Alex Varley-Winter, TTF’s Head of Media Relations & Investigative ReportingBlistering 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?

Oct 02, 2020  | 
By Alex Varley-Winter
 |  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 forwardsScientists, 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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@avwinter — 1,915 followers, 13,164 tweets

May 05, 2023
A good piece doing the rounds again (since 2019). However, the Harts’ insight into their dad’s cruelty is definitely not conveyed by the headline. Eg that he hadn’t had ‘trauma’ at all, in their view, but a murderous sense of entitlement. Which is far more dangerous.
May 05, 2023
@ZoeJardiniere .@hostiledoc was really good at taking viewers into the reality of the migration demands at ground level — the slippery slope of a Kafkaesque migration establishment over the last decade. It’s been like a machine to churn out unjust debts & it is only getting worse.
May 05, 2023
RT @ZoeJardiniere: & that is why, in my Newsnight interview, I said the government has stopped doing it's job, which is to process asylum c…
May 05, 2023
RT @ZoeJardiniere: That is why UNHCR - the guardian of the Refugee Convention - calls it a #RefugeeBanBill & says it is clearly incompatibl…
May 05, 2023
RT @ZoeJardiniere: But everyone else, no matter where they are coming from - Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Iran - will nev… https://t.co/QYsftnwrka
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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.

How is social media changing news?

It's making it more interactive.

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