The Election of the Socialists in Spain

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The king will talk to the big party leaders and ask them how they're doing forming a possible majority coalition. If after that first debate and vote fails, that starts about a two month clock to try to find an alternative. And if that clock runs out, we could be looking at repeated elections later in the year.

After no party won a majority, forming a government may take weeks—or another election. But predictions that Vox, a far-right party, might enter government failed to materialise. Russia’s navy is repainting its vessels in a bid to frustrate munitions powered by artificial intelligence (10:03). And why the push to invent outlandish ice-cream flavours such as ketchup is deeply misguided (17:59).

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