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BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind,

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea.

It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain.

While today we're mostly in oil and gas. We increased the proportion of our global

annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses

from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. VP.com slash and not all. The Economist.

Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist.

I'm Jason Palmer. And I'm Rosie Blore. Every weekday

we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. Most presidents eke out their final days in office enjoying fancy dinners and

making grand speeches to anyone who listen. In Mexico though the outgoing head of state is trying to make giant changes to the justice system.

And our columnist takes a look back at the film Fight Club 25 years after it first came out. He finds that at least some of the core

ideas and feelings it presents punch just as hard today as they did back then. But first, it's not often that a giant doorstop of a report written by a technocrat actually grabs the attention, but this one, this

one really has. Mario Draghi, a former head of the European Central Bank and Prime Minister

of Italy, was charged with examining where Europe's

economy is and where it's going.

And he's not shying from uncomfortable truths.

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