Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Bad boys, whatcha gonna do?

After a 31-year run, the television show Cops has been cancelled.

Now that a global lens is focused on the shortcomings of policing

there's a reckoning about how it's portrayed on the small screen.

And the 50th installment of the frankly epic Glastonbury Festival

was supposed to be this weekend.

Instead, everyone's getting their live music over the internet.

It isn't the same.

But the winner takes all business of live music does need some innovation.

First up though.

75 years ago this week as the Second World War was blazing to a close.

World leaders gathered in San Francisco to sign the United Nations into existence.

San Francisco, the eyes of the world focus on the sight of the world security conference.

As members of the United States delegation prepare for the great Allied meeting to plan an enduring peace.

If we had had this charter a few years ago and above all the wills who use it,

millions now dead would be alive.

President Harry Truman hailed the new body, which joined America with 50 other nations

to try to prevent another global conflict.

There's a time for making plans.

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