Fight for his party to the right: Nigel Farage
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The Economist
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🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Britain’s pint-sipping rabble-rouser of the right has joined the campaigning ahead of a general election. Win or lose, he will make an impact. America’s stadiums and arenas are often built using taxpayer dollars; they are also often terrible value for money (10:08). And a tribute to William Anders, an astronaut who snapped one of history’s most famed photographs (17:15).
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| 1:25.0 | On some level, many American sports fans know that their tax dollars have helped to build the stadiums and arenas that house their local teams. |
| 1:36.0 | What many of them might not know is that those are pretty consistently terrible investments. |
| 1:49.2 | And in 19... and in 1968 William Anders thought he was going to walk on the moon. In the end his mission was just to swing by and snap some pictures of it. |
| 1:53.0 | Along the way, our obituaries editor says, |
| 1:56.0 | he got an unexpected chance to take perhaps history's most famous photograph. |
| 2:01.0 | But first, |
| 2:09.0 | British politics is for the most part a two-party race. |
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