2026-04-01
22 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Rosie Blaire.
And I'm Jason Palmer.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Britain voted to leave the European Union a decade ago.
Strangely though, it has since become more, not less like Europe,
and policy makers are now trying to catch up.
And many universities in America used to uphold a proud tradition
of making all students take a swimming test
before they got their diploma and dive into the real world.
Now, more and more, are abandoning it.
First up, though,
Traveling to see Ukraine's drone chief was interesting enough.
Though, I can't actually tell you where we were.
Oliver Carroll is our Ukraine correspondent.
For most of the long rough bumpy road to the command point,
I was being driven in a minivan with blacked out windows.
When the doors finally slid open, we were inside.
Opposite an entrance to a strange and eccentric underground world of corridors,