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Editor's note
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Greggs the bakery has apologised after its promotional nativity scene, which substituted a sausage roll for the baby Jesus, sparked a social media uproar. But biblical scholar Meredith Warren says that, whether they are aware of it or not, the baker’s message chimes with current scriptural reading of the Gospel of John.
It was reported yesterday that 20 people have come forward with accounts of inappropriate behaviour by Kevin Spacey while he was creative director at London’s Old Vic theatre between 2004 and 2016. Karen Morash examines why harassment and the abuse of power is so commonplace in the theatre.
It’s fashionable to bash Sigmund Freud’s theories, but there’s at least one area that the father of psychoanalysis got right, says Chris Nicholson. He argues that Freud’s diagnosis of hysteria – that mental conflict can become physical disability – has been wrongly dismissed.
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Jonathan Este
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It’s big, but it might not feed 5,000.
Greggs
M J C Warren, University of Sheffield
A sausage roll standing in for the Christ Child? It's not as weird as you might think.
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Arts + Culture
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Karen Morash, Goldsmiths, University of London
Is there something in the way theatre is organised that makes abuse of power so depressingly commonplace?
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Ian Maynard, University of Essex; John P. Mills, University of Essex
England's cricket team is expected to lose the series against aggressive Australian opposition. But they might just defy expectations.
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Health + Medicine
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Chris Nicholson, University of Essex
Sigmund Freud understood that mental conflict could become physical disability.
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Dani J Barrington, University of Leeds; Pete Culmer, University of Leeds
Incontinence is frighteningly common.
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Education
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John Holmwood, University of Nottingham
There needs to be an urgent debate on the education of Muslim pupils in British schools, but this seems impossible in the current climate.
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Politics + Society
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James Hamill, University of Leicester
The coup in Zimbabwe's means that Mugabe’s long and disastrous presidency is finally over. The questions that remain are the precise details and mechanics of the deal which secures his departure.
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Umer Karim, University of Birmingham
When is an anti-corruption purge not an anti-corruption purge?
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Matthew Weait, University of Portsmouth
Rowe's was a particularly harrowing case. But it raises important questions about broader attitudes to the virus.
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Robert F. Hesketh, Liverpool John Moores University
Young people from poor backgrounds are being radicalised by criminal gangs.
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Yvetta Simonyan, University of Bath
Beauty makes us give generously.
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