BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants,

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain.

While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our

global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other

transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023.

BP.com slash and not all. The Economist. Hello and welcome'm Jason Palmer.

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But now that things have got entirely out of hand,

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credit all of the glory the people stealing secrets abroad but that's just one half of good intelligence.

Shashank Joshi is the economist defense editor.

Someone has to make sense of all of the stuff you've collected and that's where the job of

intelligence analysis comes in. These are thousands and thousands of people

across the world who are piecing through little snippets of

intercepted communications. They're looking at satellite images of

war zones. They're reading through reports sent in by human intelligence agencies like the CIA or my six and that analysis is every bit as important as intelligence collection

but that world, like a lot of the world's labor market,

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