The smaller C: progress in beating cancer
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Overall, more people are dying from cancer. But a closer look at the numbers reveals just how much success modern medicine has had at making the disease less deadly. The spiraling fortunes of Kraft Heinz since its formation from a merger is a sign of a wider malaise in the food industry. And Germany’s football-playing parliamentarians cannot keep politics off the pitch.
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| 1:00.8 | The Economist. |
| 1:07.9 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:12.1 | And I'm Rosie Bloor. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:21.8 | The huge food conglomerates of recent decades are feeling a serious squeeze. Part of it is penny-pinching as |
| 1:29.2 | costs of living rise. Part of it is a spreading resistance to ultra-processed junk. In a bid to survive, |
| 1:36.2 | some firms of big food are getting smaller. And a curious thing happened on Tuesday evenings in Berlin. |
| 1:44.8 | Members of the Bundestag swap their suits for sweats and play football. |
| 1:49.7 | Sounds like utopia, but now politics has invaded the pitch |
| 1:53.6 | and players from the far right are banned from taking part. |
| 2:00.3 | But first... |
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