More or Less: Behind the Stats - Are 72% of prison inmates in Switzerland foreign?

In a recent speech to the UN, US president Donald Trump set out some remarkable figures on the proportion of inmates in European prisons who were foreign nationals.

Citing statistics from the Council of Europe, he references Greece, Germany and Austria, as having rates around 50%.

“In Switzerland, beautiful Switzerland,” he said “72% of the people in prisons are from outside of Switzerland.” These numbers are correct, but why are the percentages so high – particularly in Switzerland?

Tim Harford speaks to Professor Marcelo Aebi, a criminologist from the University of Lausanne, who wrote the prisons report for the Council of Europe.

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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova - What Jane Goodall Teaches Us About Outsider Thought

Pioneering primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall died last week at 91. Nate and Maria talk about Jane’s career path and how her research influenced the fields of both animal and human cognition. They also discuss the significance of the outsider status she held when she began her research, and what everyone can learn from outsiders.


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The Intelligence from The Economist - The Weekend Intelligence: The trial of Yevgenia Berkovich

In May 2024, Yevgenia Berkovich and Svetlana Petrichuk, the director and writer of an experimental play, became the first Russian artists since Soviet times to be put on trial for the content of their work. It was a show trial. Like all show trials its outcome was preordained. But when professional actors took the stand, it turned it into a different kind of show—one that put the spotlight on a radical ideology that has gripped the Russian state.


In a bonus episode of our Next Year in Moscow series, The Economist’s Russia editor Arkady Ostrovsky presents a dramatisation of that trial to find out why the Russian state needed to make an example of a fringe production and, more importantly, its director.


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It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 203

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

- ICE’s Ethnic Cleansing in Chicago

- The Riyadh Comedy Festival

- The Weaponization of Mass Shootings

- Trump’s Hepatitis Vaccine Lies

- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #37

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Sources:

ICE’s Ethnic Cleansing in Chicago

https://thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds-detain-dozens-of-immigrants-in-massive-south-shore-apartment-building-raid-in-chicago/

https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated

The Riyadh Comedy Festival

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413

https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/02/yemen-coalition-bus-bombing-apparent-war-crime

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37598413

The Weaponization of Mass Shootings

https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2025/09/michigan-church-shooter-told-burton-council-candidate-that-mormons-are-the-anti-christ.html

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/09/29/thomas-jacob-sanford-michigan-shooting-suspect-anti-lds-tirade/86415139007/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/michigan-church-attack.html

https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/29/eric-swalwell-post-photoshopped-pic-x-michigan-church-attack-suspect-maga/

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1972323666705973589?s=61 

https://bsky.app/profile/aric.bsky.social/post/3lxmr4jq3qs2d 

https://x.com/jamesstout/status/1972669516384539066

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive

https://www.keranews.org/news/2025-10-06/dallas-ice-shooting-politics-and-ideology-or-notoriety-and-fame-joshua-jahns-immigration 

https://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1975581768876237115 

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/north-carolina-bar-shooting/ 

https://time.com/7323442/south-carolina-judge-diane-goodstein-house-fire-trump-political-violence/

Trump’s Hepatitis Vaccine Lies

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-health-autism-white-house-september-22-2025/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #37

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.189270/gov.uscourts.ord.189270.56.0_1.pdf
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1974086514796896515

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1974200050206322960 

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1974112113326239852 

https://katu.com/news/local/court-docs-woman-charged-in-ice-protest-chased-nick-sortor-while-wearing-bird-outfit

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/03/trump-portland-oregon-ice-immigration-police-protest/

https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1974861544812105853

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/05/california-secures-court-victory-trump-cannot-deploy-california-national-guard-into-oregon/ 

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-briefing-stephen-miller-the-white-house-october-6-2025/ 

https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1975643776161841649

https://gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker-statement-on-the-texas-national-guard-being-deployed-to-illinois 

https://illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/news/story/attorney-general-raoul-files-lawsuit-against-trump-administration-to-stop-unlawful-deployment-of-national-guard 

 

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Global News Podcast - Trump threatens additional 100% tariff on China

President Trump has said he will impose additional 100% import tariffs on Chinese goods by next month, and put export controls on any and all critical software. He said this was in response to China placing new restrictions on exports of crucial rare earth minerals. The news led to US stock markets registering their biggest one-day fall in months. Also: Palestinians in Gaza returning to their homes following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas say they've been shocked by the scale of destruction; the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just four days after he resigned from the role; the green turtle has been rescued from the brink of extinction in what scientists are calling a major conservation victory.

CBS News Roundup - 10/10/2025 | World News Roundup Late Edition

19 people are missing and feared dead after an explosion at a Tennessee explosives plant.

Layoffs begin at federal agencies as the government shutdown drags on.

Cease fire holds in Gaza as some Palestinians begin to return home.

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PBS News Hour - World - Displaced Gazans begin returning to shattered communities as ceasefire takes effect

For the first time in more than six months, the guns have gone silent in Gaza. Palestinians and Israelis are saying tonight they hope this ceasefire will prove to be the end of the war. Palestinians used the respite from relentless bombing to start picking up the pieces. Nick Schifrin reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

1A - The News Roundup For October 10, 2025

President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act this week.

He continues to clash with state and municipal authorities over the limits of his abilities to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into American cities.

Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress are eyeing their Democratic counterparts, looking for someone from the opposition to join them in voting for a bill that would reopen the government, more than a week into a shutdown.

Former FBI Director James Comey was arraigned this week, pleading not guilty on Wednesday to charges that he lied to Congress, and saying he would move to have a court dismiss the case.

Meanwhile, the first phase of a peace deal between Israel and Hamas was agreed to this week. But questions remain over how both parties will move forward with the details of the agreement.

Despite a friendly summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump in Alaska in August, the Russian government is claiming that any headway made during that meeting has largely been undone.

And after just 28 days, Sébastien Lecornu’s time as France’s prime minister came to an end this week. He’s President Macron’s fifth government leader to head for the exit in less than two years.

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PBS News Hour - Science - Unlikely alliance builds cleaner geothermal energy network in Massachusetts community

An unlikely partnership between a utility company and climate activists managed to convert a community to geothermal heating and cooling. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on this project for our energy and climate series, Tipping Point. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy