The Intelligence: Britain’s latest bad idea
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The Economist
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🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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As Parliament has now agreed to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, many members of the ruling Conservative party want to quit the court that tried to block it. It would be yet another costly mistake. Earth’s largest refrigerator, Antarctica, is defrosting. What does this mean for the rest of the world (09:24)? And a tribute to the American journalist held captive by Hizbullah for almost 7 years (17:50).
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| 1:01.8 | The Economist. |
| 1:08.9 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm your host, Oire Ogunbei. |
| 1:14.6 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:23.6 | A greenland-sized amount of ice has disappeared around Antarctica. |
| 1:28.2 | That's a lot. |
| 1:29.8 | And its consequences will quite literally have ripple effects for the rest of the world in the form of rising sea levels. |
| 1:38.0 | And on the life of Terry Anderson, the American journalist who was held hostage by |
| 1:43.7 | Hisbalah militants for almost |
| 1:45.5 | seven years. |
| 1:47.1 | He wished that his years of captivity wouldn't define him. |
| 1:50.1 | But perhaps that was beyond his control. |
| 2:00.7 | First up, though. |
| 2:05.8 | In an ideal world, bad ideas would fade into irrelevance. |
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