Shake, rattle the roles: Britain’s cabinet reshuffle
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 16 September 2021
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has re-allocated a number of key government posts. We ask how the changes reflect his political standing and what they mean for his agenda. A first-of-its-kind study that deliberately infected participants with the coronavirus is ending; we examine the many answers such research can provide. And the rural places aiming to capitalise on their dark skies.
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| 0:00.0 | I've invited five Nobel laureates back to the Bulletin with UBS. |
| 0:04.1 | Here Daniel Kahneman talk about how noise impacts our decision making. |
| 0:07.9 | David Kahn explores the driving forces behind wage inequality. |
| 0:11.6 | Gido Inbens shares how natural experiments can add credibility data. |
| 0:15.5 | And Paul Milgram and Robert Wilson explain how auctions can be used to increase fair competition. |
| 0:20.3 | You can explore more at monocle.com. |
| 0:22.4 | That's where you can join the club by subscribing to Monocle magazine. |
| 0:25.6 | Listen to the Bulletin with UBS on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, |
| 0:28.7 | or wherever you get your audio. |
| 0:36.3 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:41.2 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:50.0 | Scientists can learn a lot by rigorously monitoring the public |
| 0:53.6 | as a virus makes its way around. |
| 0:55.8 | But it's far more efficient to bring that kind of work into the lab. |
| 0:59.8 | We examine a first of its kind study that deliberately infects its participants with the coronavirus. |
| 1:06.7 | And once the last time you saw the arc of the Milky Way in the night sky, |
| 1:11.4 | it takes a lot of darkness, a difficult thing to come by these days. |
| 1:16.0 | We visit one of the rural places aiming to provide those dark skies |
| 1:20.1 | and hoping that brings an economic boost. |
| 1:26.0 | But first, |
| 1:30.0 | Britain's Prime Minister starts today with a very different cabinet than he had yesterday. |
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