Rwanda-on-Thames: Britain’s asylum proposal

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🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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BRITAIN’S GOVERNMENT has proposed sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda. The plan has been widely criticised as expensive and ineffective—but the greater danger is that the plan works. New research suggests that diversification, rather than boosting domestic production, may keep supply chains resilient. And our correspondent considers the legacy of Charles Mingus, an American composer and bassist born 100 years ago today.

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1:03.9	Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. In New York, I'm John Fastman.
1:10.4	Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
1:14.6	The pandemic played havoc with global supply chains and made governments keen to boost domestic manufacturing
1:23.6	to better protect their economies against shortages.
1:26.6	New research suggests, though, that this may be precisely the wrong approach.
1:32.4	And one of America's greatest bassist composers and band leaders was born 100 years ago today in Arizona.
1:39.8	Our correspondent reflects on the legacy of the fiery, often and temperate, but always brilliant Charles Mingus.
1:48.0	But first.
2:06.7	It sounds like a policy from a political farce, but Britain's conservative government is pressing ahead with a controversial new way of dealing with refugees.
2:10.8	Under this partnership, those who travel to the UK by illegal and dangerous routes,
2:16.8	including by small boats across the channel,
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