From jet engines to space rockets, telephones to computers, the world has seen spectacular change in the last hundred years

and the pace of progress is getting faster and faster.

From electric cars to the Metiverse, drone deliveries to climate solutions

and genetic sequencing. We are investing in the companies that are not just changing the world

today, but are also shaping the future. the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust managed by Bailey Gifford

Invest in Progress, Capital at Risk.

BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants.

And we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all.

That's how BP is backing Britain. While today we're mostly in oil and gas

We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other

transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023.

BP.com slash and not all. Hello and welcome to the Politics Without the Boring Bits Podcast with me Ed Vasey.

On today's show we're talking about deep fakes and how they might interfere with elections.

But first of all, it's time for this. Manveen Rana and someone called Matthew on Times Radio.

I'm indeed joined by Man Vine R Ron, host of the Story Podcast.

Welcome to the show.

Hello, I feel like I should just apologize in advance

because I think I started the line about there being more

pandas than Tories in Scotland. But when I said it on the BBC many years ago it was true.

There were two pandas in Scotland who refused to mate and they were eventually

effectively deported but I think the Chinese wanted them back and there were fewer Tories that's not true anymore and I'm really sorry

So it's down to you yeah, but I can't take it back that's why there was always justiculating in the studio and now nobody will sort of

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