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Deed of Truss: Britain’s new leader

Economist Podcasts

The Economist

News, News & Politics

4.35K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

As Liz Truss becomes prime minister, we ask whether her meat-and-potatoes tax-slashing agenda will work for a crisis-stricken Britain. Japan’s prison population is ageing just as its wider society is—and that is at last prompting reforms to its punitive penal system. And why Ukraine’s short supply of anti-tank missiles is not as worrying as it would once have been. 

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Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

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Today, from London, I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

1:05.9

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shape in your world.

1:14.1

In Japan, the ethos of imprisonment is one of retribution, menial labor, restricted activities,

1:21.1

and a lot of quiet. That is bad news for the increasing share of elderly prisoners,

1:26.9

so authorities are at last reforming the penal system.

1:30.3

And perhaps the single most helpful technology for Ukraine's forces in fending off Russia's invasion have been anti-tank missiles.

1:40.3

Now supplies are running worryingly low, but the weapons may already have done their most important work.

1:50.8

First up, though.

1:57.2

Thank you.

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Well, this is it, folks. Thank you everybody for coming out.

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