Colour visions: a German-election lookahead
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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The possibilities for an inevitable coalition government are a head-spinning colour wheel of party logos. We look at the most likely outcomes, and the smaller parties that may well play kingmakers. A series of scandals in Japan has propelled the country to a belated #MeToo crisis (10:35). And London’s once-abundant pie shops struggle with changing tastes and relocating clientele (16:53).
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| 1:14.4 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:22.1 | Japan is late to this, but it might finally be having a Me Too moment. |
| 1:27.2 | Our correspondent reports that although |
| 1:28.9 | attitudes are slow to change among the country's elite, popular outrage about assault is rising. |
| 1:38.7 | And I take a little trip to a vanishing slice of London life, the Pie and Mash shop. |
| 1:45.0 | We ask why this cheap but calerific meal is harder and harder to find, |
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