The Intelligence (Economist) Transcripts

Flagging carriers: war shuffles the Gulf-airline flight deck

Barrel vault: a Nigerian refining giant rises

Let me get this strait: the Iran-war escalation risk

Lone goals: will US-Israel war aims diverge?

Blood from a drone: Iran’s deadly arsenal

Strait of shock: Iran economic fallout

Oil rise: Trump gets the jitters

Follow the leader: Iran picks the son

The third Gulf war: one week on

Spars and strikes: Who backs Iran war?

Crude awakening: Iran oil shock

Escalation: Middle East war widens

War with Iran: Middle East in flames

The Weekend Intelligence: How to prepare for an invasion

Bot the difference: AI’s absence in economic data

Poised and confused: the will-he-won’t-he of Iran strikes

Chapo, Mayo, Mencho: another Mexican kingpin falls

A world-changing war: four years in Ukraine

When the levy brakes: Trump’s tariffs struck down

The arrest is history: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

The splitting image: Yoon verdict will deepen divisions

The Robin Hood state: taxes are getting more progressive

Ice, ice, maybe: should the Arctic be refrozen?

Check in the mail: our analysis of Epstein’s correspondence

Stock options: how to hedge an AI bubble

Check in Kyiv: prospects for peace?

Dhaka matters: an election for Bangladesh

A Keir-death experience: Britain's PM clings on

Snap judgement: Japan PM’s electoral landslide

Elon shot: will Musk’s mega-merger work?

Nukes of hazard: US-Russia arms treaty expires

Peter and the wolves: Mandelson falls but Epstein scandal spreads

Tug of Warsh: will the new chair politicise the Fed?

Survival Modi: Indian PM’s fortunes revive

Boss Class 1. Fat layer of humans

Democracy on ICE? The mood turns in America

No middle ground: Iran’s dangerous division

We’ll be right over here: Europe’s populists sour on Trump

General ejection: China’s military purge

Resistance is fatal: another killing in Minneapolis

Trailer: Boss Class Season 3

ISIS control: Syria’s prison camp changes hands

Grave new world: the Greenland row’s lasting damage

House of Kurds: on the ground in northern Syria

Power ballot: Japanese PM’s electoral gamble

Thin ice: could the Greenland clash kill NATO?

Clutching at shahs: Iran’s would-be revolutionary

Maria-view mirror: asking Venezuelans what they want now

Independence Jay? Inflation and attacks on the Fed

Shah caller: Iran’s protests are different this time

Oil pressure: America’s tanker seizures

In the line of fires: LA’s ashen suburbs one year on

Xi’s not there: what China’s Venezuela response reveals

Nicolás caged: what next for Venezuela?

State of the art: Chinese market flounders

What in the world: predictions for 2026

Years ending: notable lives lost in 2025

Boom with a view: our economy of the year

Generals’ selection: Myanmar’s sham poll

Battle of the texts: which books changed the world?

Growing pains: a recession in recessions

Slop stars: why AI-generated content could help creators

Emissions possible: EU petrol ban quashed

Right, here, waiting: Europe’s populists on the rise

Ven and the art of hemispheric maintenance: America’s national-security posture

“You’re…fired?” A momentous Supreme Court case

Transitional injustice: Syria one year after Assad

Keir in the headlights: interviewing Britain’s PM

Delhi-novela: Putin and Modi rekindle bromance

Stars and strikes: was America’s ship-bomb illegal?

The great wheel: China’s Robotaxi revolution

Deal them back in? What we heard in Iran

The Weekend Intelligence: Mise en masse

Fire, then fury: Hong Kong’s deadly blaze

Growth negligence: Britain’s budget