Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

For decades, Afghanistan has been a major source of the world's opium poppy and thus

heroin, and the country produces mountains of hashish too.

Now, methamphetamines are on the rise, thanks in part to the native of Fedra Bush.

And back in the 1970s, commercial radio was saturated with a particular sort of breezy,

unchallenging music.

Decades later, the genre got a name, Yacht Rock.

Now those same tracks are creeping back onto playlists, perhaps for the same sociological

reasons.

It's a bit tough though.

Any hopes they have of stopping the West Berliners destroying the wall were soon dashed, as

dozens of young men pulled on a rope and chains, the chant went up, mower of egg, done with

the wall.

After the fall of communism in 1989, Hungary turned to democracy.

This new political system would be held up as an example for other central and Eastern

European states.

That's not the case today.

Its current democratically elected leader is Viktor Orban.

He's held office once before, for four years, from 1998.

He was reelected in 2010, and there's little sign he's going to lose his job anytime

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