Blown speaker: Kevin McCarthy is out
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The Economist
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Another shutdown standoff, funding worries for Ukraine, more leadership chaos: the booting of America’s speaker of the House of Representatives bodes ill for governance. “Jawan”, a new Indian film, is non-stop action with Bollywood flourishes—and reveals how divisions in the country are being bridged (9:26). And an investigation of places where centenarians are abundant suggests healthy lifestyles are not the cause (17:55).
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| 0:00.0 | In his first ever short story collection, which spans 40 years of work and features many |
| 0:05.2 | never before published pieces, it turned its head and looked straight at me. |
| 0:10.9 | Alan Moore, the international best-selling author, presents nine stories full of wonder |
| 0:15.9 | and strangeness. |
| 0:16.9 | How do you know that you're immortal unless you get to the end of time and haven't died? |
| 0:20.8 | An instant Sunday Times best-seller, Illuminations by Alan Moore, is available now in Paperback |
| 0:27.4 | audiobook and e-book. |
| 0:58.4 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:11.9 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:20.4 | In a lot of ways the divide between Northern and Southern India make them seem like entirely |
| 1:25.6 | different countries, but our correspondent watches a rollicking new film that reveals how |
| 1:31.0 | those divides are being bridged, Bollywood style. |
| 1:36.6 | And some parts of the world are renowned for their preponderance of really old people. |
| 1:42.0 | What is it about these places that leads to so many centenarians and super centenarians? |
| 1:47.6 | Turns out it may be no fountain of use, just that bookkeeping. |
| 1:55.6 | First up, though. |
| 2:04.1 | The Yays are 216. The Nays are 210. The resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion |
| 2:13.0 | to reconsider is laid on the table. The office of Speaker of the House. Of the United States |
| 2:19.6 | House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant. |
| 2:25.6 | From the moment Kevin McCarthy struck a deal with Democratic help to avoid a government |
| 2:30.1 | shutdown this weekend, his job as leader of the House of Representatives was in danger. |
| 2:35.4 | And after plenty of warning that he would do so, it was Matt Gates and elaborately |
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