Enter staged right: misinformation feeds Britain’s riots
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Unrest across the country has been driven in part by the provably false claims of right-wing provocateurs. We examine the real concerns underlying the violence, and how to end it swiftly. Japanese politics had until recently been anachronistically tame; not so now that the social-media populists have arrived (10:18). And the notable parallels between “House of the Dragon” and modern politics (18:00).
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| 1:10.4 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:13.7 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:15.6 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:24.3 | Political campaigning in Japan is, in general, pretty old school. |
| 1:29.3 | You know, pamphleting and loudspeakers on cars. |
| 1:32.4 | But our correspondent found that the recent battle for Tokyo Governor had a very different feel to it. |
| 1:38.4 | The feeling of an actually exciting, if bonkers, race. |
| 1:43.5 | And I'm told that season |
| 1:45.9 | two of House of the Dragon concluded |
| 1:48.1 | last night. What's notable |
| 1:50.0 | about this latest installment of the |
| 1:51.8 | Game of Thrones franchise is |
| 1:53.9 | well there's dragons, I guess, but |
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