Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Shashank Choshy,

filling in for Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events

shaping your world.

In 2019, Germany's coalition government passed its first ever climate law to creing that

carbon emissions would need to be cut 55% by 2030. But in a shop ruling in April, Germany's

most senior judges said that wasn't good enough. The law, they complained, would force radical

abstinence on future generations.

And traditional road building can be messy, expensive and environmentally unfriendly.

So why don't knit yourself a road? First up though.

It's been a difficult not to say desperate start to the week for Keir Stammer, the leader

of the British opposition Labour Party.

Well I'm visibly disappointed in the results and you know I take full responsibility for

fixing things.

Mr Stammer has been hastily reshuffling his shadow cabinet following election results which

have left him and his party seriously weakened. The British midterms held at the end of last

week included votes for regional parliament in Scotland and Wales, council seats across

England and elections for city mayors. The most telling result was a conservative victory

in the parliamentary by-election in Hartlepool, a port town in the northeast of England.

I do hear by declare that Gillian Wendy Martimer, commonly known as Gill Martimer, is

Julie Elected. Congratulations.

North of the border in Scotland, a victory for nationalists has amplified calls for another

independence referendum.

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