The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Rosie Bloor.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
This week,
Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced in absentia to six months in prison by a domestic court.
Nearly one year after she fled the country,
our correspondent analyzes how its new leader is doing.
And say Ferrari, and we can all summon up the slick, super-fast car.
Not quite so many of us actually own them, and given the cost, most of us never will.
So how is the company still doing so well?
But first...
It's been a humiliating week for Britain's Labour government.
Elected in a landslide and promising radical renewal,
it's
since had to scrap many of its plans to save money or to get its own party to back it.
Labour MPs backed what was supposed to be one of the government's flagship welfare reforms,
but only after ministers stripped out its most controversial elements.
What just happened in there, at the 11th hour, in front of MPs' very eyes,
were ripping out bits of the bill, folding on all of their planned changes, really.