2025-01-10
27 分钟The Economist hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.
I'm your host Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world in 2025.
European governments, like pretty much everybody else, have to work out the art of dealing with Donald.
Our series the World Ahead concludes today with our defense editor laying out what that means in the context of European security.
And in fiction, love wins out in spite of roadblocks and setbacks.
Usually our obituary's editor reflects on the life of Chung Yao, a remarkably prolific novelist and screenwriter whose own love life was no less wrenching than those in her many works.
First up, though, eight years ago the world wondered, worried about an incoming Trump administration and just how much policy and foreign relations would happen by tweet.
Well, here we go again.
The twist in the story is that Mr.
Trump himself is over on Truth Social, his own personal money spinning megaphone, but still potentially agenda setting.
Tweets are flooding in this time around from America's tech bro in chief, whose online diatribes are becoming offline concerns for Britain's politicians.
Elon Musk is going to Elon Musk.
I've got bigger and more important things.
To be thinking about.
I have no desire to go to.
War with Elon Musk and I'm not going to.
And I haven't done.
The specter of the richest man in the world trying to buy a British political party should give us all pause for thought.
What is Mr.