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Workday travel is down, even if evening and week end travel seems mostly to have recovered to pre pandemic levels. We take a ride on a shiny new line in london, reflecting on the complicated future of post pandemic public transport. And thousands of drones have swarmed the skies over ukraine in the past few months, mainly to gather battlefield intelligence.

Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid, Britain’s finance and health ministers respectively, resigned yesterday; other officials soon followed suit. Once again, questions about Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s political survival are swirling. A ride on London’s sparkling but quiet new railway line hints at the complexities of post-pandemic public transport. And how off-the-shelf drones are making a difference in Ukraine’s war. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer