2025-06-02
19 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Jason Palmer.
And I'm Rosie Bloor.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world.
Our daring correspondent went out in Cardiff,
a city known as one of Britain's most hard drinking.
In years past, he might have expected booze-fuelled punch-ups to break out.
Not anymore, and that lack of violence is reflected across Britain.
And when private mercenaries tried to overthrow the regime of Equatorial Guinea in 2004,
the so-called Wongakoo brought the world of military contractors into the public eye.
Its leader was longtime mercenary Simon Mann.
Our obituary's editor remembers him.
But first...
These days, elections often seem almost existential.
In the case of Poland's presidential race,
a knife-edge vote was a choice between two quite distinct futures.
Exit polls appear to point to a liberal one,
showing that the mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzykowski, was in the lead.
Though the polls showed the race was extremely close, Trakowski claimed victory.