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Editor's note
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Dramatic events on the Korean peninsula over the past week have stirred hope and fear in equal measure. Will talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, really pave the way for lasting peace and security? Ed Griffith says that while this apparent detente has been a long time in the making, it still depends vitally on China and the US, both of whom have serious skin in the game. Meanwhile, Virginie Grzelczyk offers a reality check for Donald Trump: the test isn’t whether he can strike a deal with Pyongyang, but whether he can show the
leadership that’ll make it work in the long run.
Gaza is in the midst of an environmental and public health disaster. The Palestinian territory’s sewage treatment plants have been either destroyed or forced offline by blackouts, and almost all its drinking water is now technically undrinkable. In the chaos, antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” are flourishing. Mark Zeitoun, a water engineer, and Ghassan Abu Sitta, a conflict surgeon, both have extensive experience in the region. They write about how blockades and war have now permeated an entire ecosystem and made normal life harder than ever.
The personal library of John Stuart Mill, one of the Victorian era’s greatest thinkers, was bequeathed to Somerville College in Oxford by his stepdaughter in 1906 for the use of the students there. What made this legacy of such lasting value were the marginalia, small notes and asides written in the margins of many of the 2,000 volumes by Mill, which can tell us a great deal about how his mind worked. Alfred Pionke has been working with Somerville to digitise and collate these priceless insights.
After weeks of mounting pressure Amber Rudd resigned as home secretary last night. Her admission last week that the Home Office did have targets for deporting people should have come as no surprise. The British immigration system, driven by a single-minded goal of reducing net migration, is designed to cause harm, argue Victoria Canning and Monish Bhatia. And it overlooks the persecution and pain of asylum seekers, for the sake of statistics.
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Andrew Naughtie
International Editor
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Top stories
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EPA/Korea Summit Press Pool
Ed Griffith, University of Central Lancashire
The astonishing sight of two Korean leaders crossing the border that divides them is just a first step.
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Mohammed Saber / EPA
Mark Zeitoun, University of East Anglia; Ghassan Abu Sitta, American University of Beirut
Undrinkable drinking water is just one example of how blockades and war have permeated an entire ecosystem.
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John Stuart Mill.
Albert Pionke, University of Alabama
The great thinker left thousands of comments in the margins of his personal library. Now these are being digitised and catalogued.
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Under pressure: Home secretary, Amber Rudd.
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Victoria Canning, The Open University; Monish Bhatia, Birkbeck, University of London
Home Office deportation targets reduce complex human stories to statistics.
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Health + Medicine
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Francesco Crea, The Open University
Cancer doesn't just grow uncontrollably. It has a smarter strategy than that.
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Paul Dimeo, University of Stirling; Verner Møller, Aarhus University
We need a radical solution to clean up doping in elite sport.
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Education
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Gillian Richards, Nottingham Trent University
In many of the UK's seaside towns and former coal mining communities, young people are caught up in cycles of deprivation.
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Politics + Society
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Virginie Grzelczyk, Aston University
Donald Trump has always traded on his image as a master dealmaker – but many deals have been done with North Korea before.
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Jo Deakin, University of Manchester
Efforts to regulate social media and censor drill music are wasted. Instead, teachers and police need to give young people opportunities to grow.
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Nicki Lisa Cole, University of York
Despite the prevalence of Fairtrade sugar in UK society, the sugarcane industry remains deeply troubled.
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Daniel Allington, University of Leicester
Analysis of left wing Facebook groups suggests that antisemitism is often unrecognised or ineffectively challenged
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Environment + Energy
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Julia P G Jones, Bangor University
Some scientists want to replace 'ecosystem services' with ‘Nature’s Contributions to People’.
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Arts + Culture
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Lindsey Blumell, City, University of London
The women who overcame heavy opposition to fight for justice in the Cosby rape case.
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Science + Technology
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Melanie Bailey, University of Surrey
Research is increasingly proving fingerprints can be used for much more than identifying people.
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Richard Hyde, University of Nottingham
As incidents of food-borne illnesses increase, virtual reality could help better train food hygiene
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Robert Young, Lancaster University
Experiment produces thousands of entangled atoms, raising hopes that we can soon create real quantum computers.
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