2026-06-04
24 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Jason Palmer.
Today on the show, how NATO is preparing for life without America
and what is lost when everyone skips TV show intros.
But first.
A content warning here.
You're about to hear some of the last words of Henry Novak, an 18-year-old student.
A police officer is speaking to him shortly after he was stabbed in the English city of Southampton.
The police handcuff Henry and initially ignore his pleas.
The last thing you can hear him say on the recording is, "Please, brother, I can't breathe."
For many people, those words will spark a grim memory from six years ago.
In Britain, one party, one man, wants to use Mr. Novak's death to make more of that echo.
Henry died on the 3rd of December last year,
but the police bodycam footage of his final moments has only just been released after the conclusion of his murderer's trial.
Hugo Gye is a British political correspondent for The Economist.
Some figures on the British right have compared the way he was treated by police
to the death of George Floyd, which sparked the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
The police have apologized for the way that Henry was treated as he was dying,
but nonetheless, the case has attracted national attention and become a major political talking point this week.