The blonde leading: Britain’s two years under Boris Johnson

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<p>As the country tests a <a href="https://www.economist.com/britain/2021/07/20/britain-tests-the-limits-of-mass-vaccination?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bold reopening strategy</a> in the face of the Delta variant, our political editor charitably characterises the prime minister’s tenure as <a href="https://www.economist.com/britain/2021/07/24/boris-johnson-marks-his-second-anniversary-in-number-10?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a mixed bag</a>. Hong Kong’s national-security law has now <a href="https://www.economist.com/china/2021/07/21/academics-in-hong-kong-suffer-curbs-on-their-freedoms?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">come for its universities</a>, sending shudders through the territory’s last bastion of pro-democracy fervour. And why the alcohol-free beer industry is <a href="https://www.economist.com/business/2021/07/07/alcohol-free-beer-is-fizzing?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">fizzing</a>. </p><p>For full access to print, digital and audio editions of <em>The Economist</em>, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a></p> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>