Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Each year, millions of monarch butterflies make an astonishing migration from Canada to a remote corner of Mexico,

and no one was more excited to greet them than Omero Gomez.

We look back on the life of a logger-turned-activist.

And the coyote is thought of as America's predator of the prairie, or maybe as a figure of fun in cartoons.

But ecological pressures are driving them into cities across the country,

and inevitably that makes for conflict with humans.

First up, though.

Few Irish leaders have gained the global recognition of the current Prime Minister, or Tyshok,

Leo Varadkar.

The son of an Indian immigrant, he's Ireland's first openly gay leader, and its youngest. He first took office three years ago at the age of 38.

And I think if my election as leader of Fine Gael today has shown anything, it is that prejudice

is no hold in this republic.

He's overseen the abolition of abortion laws and stood up to the British over Brexit.

The UK is only one country and we have a population and a market of 450 million people.

If these were two teams up against each other playing football, who do you think has the stronger team?

But despite being well-liked abroad, at home there's discontent over soaring housing costs

and a faltering health service. Tomorrow, there's a general election. And if the polls are to be

believed, Mr Verradkar faces the sack. We're in the grips of a housing crisis. It's absolutely

chronic out there. It's heartbreaking out there. And something has to be done. Something radical has to be done something radical has to be done and

I firmly believe that we are the people to do that and to widespread surprise the party that looks

to gain the most is the one closely associated with the violence that gripped Ireland in the

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