The Intelligence: The city that never slipped
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 28 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 | Hi there. I'm off this week. |
| 0:04.6 | Apparently we're more productive at work after a good holiday. |
| 0:12.1 | So I'm counting this Caribbean rum distillery tour as professional development. Yours calling. Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways |
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| 1:00.6 | The Economist. |
| 1:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:11.5 | I'm Oire Ogunbei. |
| 1:13.5 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:15.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:22.0 | Narendra Modi was elected a decade ago with a plan to make India a global power. |
| 1:29.6 | Despite immense progress, |
| 1:35.7 | there is much cause for criticism. In the latest of our democracy series, a look at why this year's election is so crucial for the country. And as a deadly virus spread through rural China, |
| 1:43.2 | officials didn't want to admit it had reached their patches. |
| 1:46.0 | A fearless doctor tried to raise the alarm. |
| 1:49.0 | Our obituaries editor reflects on the life of Gao Yao Ji, who in the 1990s discovered how AIDS was spreading. |
| 1:59.0 | First up then I just came back from Rome and I missed London |
| 2:08.3 | people, the food |
| 2:10.3 | The noise, the business |
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