and welcome back to The Insider from our studios in London.
I'm Zanni Minton-Berrows, the Economist's Editor-in-Chief, and I hope you're enjoying the holidays.
This is our last show of 2025, and so we thought we would do something a bit special.
We've handed the show over to you.
We've asked you to send in any questions you like for us, and so many of you did.
So here to help me answer them, we have, as always, my Deputy and Partner in Crime, Ed Karl.
Hi, Zanni.
We have Sasha Nauta, our Britain editor joining us again.
Nice to see you.
And we have Adam Roberts, our newly appointed foreign editor.
Adam has gone from being digital editor to foreign editor.
Welcome and congratulations.
Thank you very much.
So, I'm going to start.
We've all got copies of the questions.
I'm going to start, Ed, with a question to you from Omar Kay of Aman.
And Omar asks,
how do you guard against Western blind spots when covering regions like the Middle East,
especially when much of the reporting ecosystem is shaped by governments and militaries?
Well, it's a good question and it's a constant danger, I think.