2025-07-11
23 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Our Middle East correspondent has felt compelled to investigate the disappearance in 2012 of Austin Tice.
an American journalist in Syria.
After months of reporting, the threads of clues reveal much about the former Assad regime.
And Jimmy Swaggart was one of America's most prominent televangelists,
and did a pretty good job of showing that even the most fervent men of God are fallible.
Our obituaries editor looks back on his rise and fall.
But first...
Another day, another bit of unhappy news from Britain's Office of National Statistics.
The economy has shrunk.
Again.
Only a little bit this time.
Sustained growth has been elusive for really quite a while.
Low wages have led to the kind of cost of living crunch that's familiar elsewhere.
But Britons can't resist making cutesy abbreviations, so here it's called Cozy Lives.
For all those lemons, though, Britain does have a chance to make some lemonade.
In the context of some fairly uninspiring economic news that's come out of Britain in the past weeks,