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I'm your host Rosie Blore. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world.

White women are often assumed to have been innocent partners in the crime of American slavery.

But new research suggests that many of them were just as culpable,

seeing the slave market as a

ticket to their own economic freedom.

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Well now we have a quiz of our own. to this I know you must be into the economist.

Well now we have a quiz of our own, based on us.

And it turns out to be really quite fun. First up though, though.

Three years ago, Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered an inquiry into Britain's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The first damning conclusions were published yesterday.

Former Judge Heather Hallert chaired the investigation and said the government had let the British people down.

In 2019, it was widely believed in the United Kingdom and abroad that the UK was not only properly prepared, but was one of the best

prepared countries in the world to respond to a pandemic.

This belief was dangerously mistaken.

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