4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
As Julian Assange is released from prison our correspondent reflects on how the work of Wikileaks changed whistleblowing in the internet era, for good and for ill. Meanwhile Peter Navarro, Donald Trump’s trade hawk, remains behind bars—but is plotting for a second Trump term (09:25). And the social-media trend changing tinned fish from frumpy to foodie fare (18:33).
Get a world of insights by subscribing to Economist Podcasts+. For more information about how to access Economist Podcasts+, please visit our FAQs page or watch our video explaining how to link your account.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants, |
| 0:06.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:13.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our |
| 0:16.8 | global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other |
| 0:19.8 | transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:26.4 | VP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:29.6 | The Intelligence is sponsored by PWC. For businesses, staying ahead of disruption is a challenge. But PWC can help you transform. They take a human-led tech-powered approach to transformation. |
| 0:45.2 | That means combining all their deep industry expertise with the skills of 5,000 UK |
| 0:50.3 | technologists and 15,000 UK staff all set up with Gen AI skills and tools. |
| 0:56.5 | Find out how PWC can help you be transformative at PWC.W.C.C. |
| 1:07.0 | The Economist. |
| 1:15.0 | Hello and welcome'm Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:25.0 | What could we expect from a second Trump term? |
| 1:30.0 | To find out we turn to a novel source, a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institution of Miami, |
| 1:35.8 | who just happens to be one of Trump's former economic advisors. |
| 1:41.2 | And for most people, tinned foods are little more than pragmatic, cheap, long-lasting, |
| 1:46.8 | pandy preparation rations. |
| 1:48.7 | Yet there's a social media trend that's rebranding tinned fish as a luxury item and sales online and off are going swimmingly. First up though, though, |
| 2:10.0 | after the |
| 2:12.0 | After five years in a British jail, Julian Assange, the co-founder of WikiLeaks, has been released and is heading home to Australia. |
| 2:20.0 | The whistleblower has made a plea deal with American prosecutors who have spent the past few years chasing him through the High Court in London. As part of that deal, Mr Assange is pleading guilty to one count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified |
| 2:34.9 | American documents but he won't face prison time or be extradited. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Economist, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Economist and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.