Liberté, égalité, désordre: chaos in France
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The Economist
4.4 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
France’s newly-appointed prime minister has resigned only weeks into the job. Now President Emmanual Macron has given him 48 hours to come up with a plan for next year’s budget. Can Macron survive the turmoil? As driverless taxis take over San Francisco, what will happen to the human drivers? And remembering Jilly Cooper, queen of the bonkbuster
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| 0:45.5 | And I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:49.8 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. We'll take a quiet ride in a self-driving taxi in San Francisco, where they're proliferating. |
| 1:01.1 | Will they take jobs from human cabbies? |
| 1:03.3 | Maybe not. |
| 1:04.4 | May just end up another industry where there are different services for the rich and for the not-so-rich. |
| 1:11.5 | And Jilly Cooper was the queen of Bunk Busters. |
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