The Intelligence: The city that never slipped
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
From Brexit to covid-19, nothing has yet stymied London’s successes. The city has its problems, but it remains a paragon of policymaking. In the last of our series on democracy around the world, we examine what is at stake in India’s coming election (9:16). And a tribute to Gao Yaojie, whose findings about the spread of AIDS shocked and shamed China (16:53).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:17.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:22.0 | Norengue. events shaping your world. |
| 0:30.0 | Norendra Modi was elected a decade ago with a plan to make India a global power. Despite immense progress, there is much cause for criticism. |
| 0:34.7 | In the latest of our democracy series, |
| 0:37.0 | a look at why this year's election is so crucial for the country. |
| 0:42.2 | And as a deadly virus spread through rural China, |
| 0:45.0 | officials didn't want to admit it had reached their patches. |
| 0:48.0 | A fearless doctor tried to raise the alarm. |
| 0:52.0 | Our obituaries editor reflects on the life of Gao Yaoji, |
| 0:55.6 | who in the 1990s discovered how AIDS was spreading. First up there. |
| 1:05.0 | then. I just came back from Rome and I missed London like people the food. |
| 1:12.0 | The noise, the business transportation yes there's |
| 1:18.8 | always someone around there's always something going on. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm standing right in the heart of the city of London, near Liverpool Street Station, and there are a bunch of the tall buildings that you might recognize from London's skyline. |
| 1:32.0 | It's a historically significant hub for the city's |
| 1:35.4 | financial sector, you know, the bankers, the analysts, and on this busy weekday afternoon, |
| 1:41.5 | I've come to speak with workers who have made London home. |
| 1:44.3 | Hi, so I'm a journalist, I'm with the economist. So I'm thinking about leaving the |
| 1:50.9 | city, I'm just feeling a bit priced out I don't like the cold |
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