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Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm Jason Palmer.

And I'm Aura Ugunbi. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping

your world.

Between you and me, Apple's new headset looks like something out of an eerie episode of Black Mirror.

Some people might find that exciting, innovative or even groundbreaking. But our correspondent

has his reservations.

And the British, perhaps more than most, just love the seaside. But for decades they've

chosen foreign beaches over their own. The glories of Britain's coastal towns have faded

and badly. Lately though, the tide has been changing.

First up though.

There's just not enough of this going on around the world.

Birth rates are falling everywhere you look. What demographers call the replacement rate,

the number of babies the average woman needs to have in her lifetime in order to keep the

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