Meeting them where they are: a British MP’s murder
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Sir David Amess was killed doing what he loved: speaking directly with voters. We examine the dangers inherent in the “constituency surgeries” that British politicians cherish. The fight against tuberculosis is made harder by mutations that confer drug resistance; we look at research that has traced nearly every one of them. And why Andy Warhol is big in Iran, again.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:08.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.0 | Tuberculosis remains a global killer, in part because it's fast evolving its way around existing drugs. |
| 0:23.6 | Tracking those variants and the infections they cause just got easier, thanks to a mix of methods old and new, and the help of thousands of volunteers. |
| 0:32.6 | And one of the sharpest markers of revolutionary era Iran was the quashing of culture. |
| 0:39.3 | The hardliners wanted no non-Islamic influence creeping in. |
| 0:43.3 | So why, under a new hardline president, is Iran celebrating Western pop artists like Andy Warhol? |
| 0:57.0 | First up, though, In Parliament yesterday, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson led tributes to Sir David Amos. |
| 1:08.0 | A man who used his decades of experience to offer friendship and support to new members of all parties, |
| 1:14.9 | whose views often confounded expectation and defied easy stereotype, |
| 1:21.5 | and who believed not just in pointing out what was wrong with society, |
| 1:26.5 | but in getting on and doing something about it. |
| 1:31.2 | On Friday, the member of Parliament was stabbed to death in a church in the small town of Lee-on-Sea |
| 1:36.8 | in South East England, as on every Friday, the Conservative Party MP was there to meet local |
| 1:42.6 | people and hear their concerns. |
| 1:50.5 | A 25-year-old man has been arrested and the attack has been declared a terrorist incident. |
| 1:53.5 | Many MPs are now calling for greater protections. |
| 1:59.5 | In the wake of Sir David's death, Chris Bryant, an MP with the Labour Party, called for people to be kinder. He then received a death threat from a man who was later arrested. |
| 2:04.6 | It's not just name-calling, but really, you know, |
| 2:07.6 | vile threats to people's lives, to their families, and to those who are around them. |
| 2:14.6 | And we've got to change as a country. We've just got to change. |
| 2:18.7 | Constituency surgeries where MPs meet voters to discuss local issues are a long-standing |
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