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It's Monday the 5th of June 2023. I'm Fiametta Rocco, a senior editor at the

Economist. Welcome to Editors' Picks, where you can hear three highlights from the weekly edition

of the Economist, read aloud. In the 250-odd years since the Industrial Revolution,

the world's population, like its wealth, has exploded. Before the end of this century, however,

the number of people on the planet could shrink for the first time since the Black Death.

The root cause is not a surge in deaths, but a slump in births. Our cover story in most of the

world this week considers what the baby bust means for the future of the world economy.

Will ageing societies still innovate?

In Britain, though, our cover story focuses on Scotland. The country was the first part of Britain

to get high on populist referendums. But since Nicholas Durgins abrupt exit from the political

stage, the independence-focused Scottish National Party has been caught in a downward spiral.

After a 10-year break from reality, Scottish politics is suddenly dramatically influx.

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