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.

Impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump seemed likely to come to a swift close.

The outcome was never in doubt, and that says a lot about the Senate as an institution, about Republicans as a party,

and about impeachment as an effective check on power.

And, through centuries of British art, just about the only woman depicted as pregnant was the Virgin Mary.

All that changed in the late 20th century, but a new exhibition looks back at all those missing baby bumps and why they were brushed out of history.

First up, though.

Twice over the past 80 years, Britain has pressed the reset button.

The first came at the end of the Second World War.

Victory day changes to victory night, and the darkening skies over London are lit by the joyous lights of peace. The second in 1979 with the advent of Thatcherism.

Now that the election is over, may we get together and strive to serve and strengthen the country

of which we are so proud to be a part.

Today, Brexit Day, marks a third.

It's over three and a half years since the vote to leave the European Union.

Ladies and gentlemen, dare to dream that the dawn is breaking on an independent United Kingdom.

But the actual act of leaving has proved complicated, to say the least.

It involved one failed negotiation, two general elections, and plenty of political squabbling.

Order!

Order!

The process exposed deep differences between political parties, regions, even within families.

The branches! But tonight, at 11 p.m., Britain and the EU will separate.

It's time, says the Prime Minister, for everyone to move on.

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