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On a win and a player: Britain’s gaming prowess

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The Economist

News, News & Politics

4.35K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

As the world’s biggest gaming fair gets underway, our correspondent looks at the surprising success of Britain, the world’s third-largest exporter of video games. Europeans are giving up their vices, so the public takings from sin taxes are falling. And the rise of “Bangla Teslas”: battery-powered rickshaws in Bangladesh.


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0:00.0

For the nappies, peekaboo's and tea parties.

0:02.8

Mess, tantrums and sleepless nights.

0:05.7

All those yo-yo's action figures and shinies.

0:08.9

Lifts to mates, lifts to parties, lifts everywhere.

0:12.3

For each and every one of those teenage years.

0:15.0

Let's be honest.

0:16.4

You probably owe your parents one.

0:18.5

So tell them about pension credit.

0:20.7

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1:00.8

The Economist.

1:07.9

Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

1:17.0

I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

1:31.3

Europe is phenomenally good at, you might say ruthless with its syntaxes, booze, tobacco, petrol, the sky's the limit. The public health and public purse arguments for them are straightforward,

1:35.3

but there is some inequality in their effects.

1:38.3

And the electric vehicle revolution has come for Bangladesh's rickshaws.

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