In the 1960s the comedian Tony Hancock and actress Patricia Hayes told the British public to “go to work on an egg”. Since then, eggs have been in and out of favour so many times it’s hard to keep up. Following more recent advice that we could eat as many as we want, a new study suggested a link between eggs and heart disease, but before you change your diet yet again, read Tom Sanders take on it all.

China’s space industry made great strides recently, landing a lunar probe on the dark side of the moon in January. To match the scope of that ambition comes a new science-fiction blockbuster that has taken more than US$700m at the box office in just over a month. The Wandering Earth tells the story of a Chinese plan to save humanity from the threat of a dying sun by propelling Earth to a safer solar system. Hiu Man Chan traces the history of Chinese sci-fi and says the film is a confident vision of a new China-led world order.

John Bercow, the speaker of the House of Commons, dramatically altered the course of Brexit after he warned the prime minister, Theresa May, that she cannot legitimately submit the same Brexit deal for another vote in parliament. His move has enraged Downing Street and many MPs too. But Matthew Flinders wonders argues that a blinkered government should have seen this coming.

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