Editor's note

Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump are today sitting down for their long-awaited meeting in Singapore. Hopes are high, but as Maria Ryan explains, the two leaders will have to confront three hugely difficult issues if they want to make progress. And that’s assuming they can even communicate properly; with Trump apparently considering chatting to Kim without an interpreter present, Severine Hubscher-Davidson makes the case for keeping highly capable translators in the room at all times.

Automation has the potential to transform the working world by increasing productivity while reducing the number of human workers. Debra Howcraft and Jill Rubery investigate how we can use these changes to achieve greater gender equality.

The NHS’s budget deficit was close to £1 billion at the end of the last financial year. But that deficit could quite easily be reduced by half if GPs stopped prescribing over-the-counter drugs, such as paracetamol and hay fever pills. These drugs are cheaper for patients to buy than they are for the NHS to supply. The problem, says Philip Crilly, will be in convincing patients who don’t pay for their prescriptions to buy their own medicines.

Andrew Naughtie

International Editor

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Kim Jong-un arrives in Singapore. EPA/KCNA

US-North Korea summit: three things Trump and Kim need to talk about

Maria Ryan, University of Nottingham

Can decades of deadlock be broken by two of the world's most unpredictable leaders?

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Severine E Hubscher-Davidson, The Open University

Kim Jong-un may be able to "chat" in English. That's not enough to understand Donald Trump.

There are considerable differences in pay, employment levels, and the types of activities that men and women perform in the workplace. shutterstock

Automation has the potential to improve gender equality at work

Debra Howcroft, University of Manchester; Jill Rubery, University of Manchester

Automation could transform our working world. Here's what we can do to ensure it is a more gender equal one.

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NHS can save half a billion pounds a year – here's how

Philip Crilly, Kingston University

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