Just fine: Boris Johnson and “partygate”
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Police have served Britain’s prime minister, among others, with a fine for breaching the lockdown rules he instituted. He may yet again emerge unscathed, but Britain’s politics is damaged nonetheless. Florida’s natural environment has made it one of America’s fastest-growing states, yet environmental challenges represent its biggest long-term challenge. And Ukraine’s most famous rock star joins the war effort.
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| 1:11.8 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:18.3 | People flock to Florida for its beaches and warm weather. |
| 1:22.1 | But its environmental challenges are immense, including rising sea levels, intense hurricanes, |
| 1:29.0 | algal blooms that kill marine life, and both too much and too little water. |
| 1:35.4 | And Slava Vakruchuk is Ukraine's best-known rock star, a singer of ballads, protest songs, |
| 1:41.4 | and ballads that have become protest songs. But he's more than that, a trained physicist, a game show winner, a former parliamentarian, |
| 1:49.1 | and now a soldier. |
| 1:55.5 | But first... |
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