Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

COVID-19 has sorted the winners from the losers in the world of warship. Religious institutions

are businesses after all and like all businesses the pandemic has posed a serious challenge.

It's also in spiritually trying times provided an opportunity.

And driving can bring out the worst in people. Road rage incidents happen all over but

in America they're far more likely to result in a killing and those killings have doubled

over the past five years.

Best up though.

Boris Johnson's Premership has never looked so shaky. Britain's leader is under fire

from the opposition and his own party members who have asked for his resignation.

I don't believe his position as Prime Minister only to the Conservative Party is tangible

and he does need to resign.

It started last month when a video of Allegra Stratton, the Prime Minister's press secretary,

showed her joking about a Christmas party in 2020 at the British Prime Minister's office

and residence at 10 Downing Street.

A time when government rules had in effect cancelled everyone else's Christmas.

It was a business meeting.

It is recorded.

But the revelations kept coming.

The Prime Minister had also hosted a Christmas quiz.

Then a picture of what appeared to be a party in the Downing Street Garden in May of 2020

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