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🗓️ 10 June 2024
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Hard-right parties did well in Europe's parliamentary elections—so well in France that President Emmanuel Macron called a risky snap election. Elsewhere, though, the political centre held. We examine the policies that are getting America’s many chronically truant students back in school (9:13). And the delicate business of naming a new car (16:42).
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0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants, |
0:06.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
0:13.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our |
0:16.8 | global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other |
0:19.8 | transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
0:26.4 | VP.com slash and not all. |
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1:01.3 | Coda 2K. |
1:07.0 | The Economist. |
1:15.0 | Hello and welcome'm Jason Palmer. Every week day we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
1:17.0 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
1:19.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
1:24.0 | When schools reopened after the pandemic, |
1:30.0 | many children were desperate to get back to in-person learning. |
1:33.7 | Others, not so much. |
1:35.8 | Now some schools in America are trying clever new ways to coax back truants. |
1:40.5 | And pity the marketing departments at automakers. |
1:45.0 | The annals of history include some really bad ideas for branding new models. |
1:51.0 | Our industry editor looks at the sometimes arbitrary yet always delicate business of naming new cars. But first. Elections for the European Parliament can be extremely telling. |
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