Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

Today from London, I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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

Russia's thinning and tired ranks need replenishing in Ukraine,

but it's not clear President Vladimir Putin's partial mobilization will help.

Conscripts are getting little training and the Russian public mood has shifted at the mention of a draft.

And there's always some good press to be had when a newly discovered species is named after someone famous.

But what happens when that someone famous becomes someone notorious?

Turns out it's tricky to rename things like the Hitler beetle.

But first...

It's built as the biggest annual political event in Europe.

And the British Conservative Party's conference in Birmingham is certainly getting a lot of attention.

Less than a month since Liss Trust took over as the UK's new Conservative Prime Minister,

a government's controversial tax and borrowing plans,

meaning the Conservative Party's conference is literally besieged by critics.

The conference will culminate in a speech tomorrow by Liss Trust,

whose first few weeks as Prime Minister haven't gone very smoothly.

A mini-budget of tax cuts delivered less than two weeks ago sent the pound to a record low against the dollar.

Banks pulled mortgage deals.

The Bank of England announced it was ready to buy unlimited quantities of long-dated bonds

to restore some order to financial markets.

Yesterday, the man who delivered that budget, the Chancellor quasi-quarting,

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