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Editor's note
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Beyoncé's recent pregnancy pictures sent social media into meltdown and bumped Donald Trump off a fair few front pages – at least for a while. Quite right, too, says Katie Edwards – the image she posted on Instagram was a clever comment on religious iconography and gave both barrels to centuries of sexual and racial inequality.
If alternative facts and "post-truth" have done one good thing, it's in pushing George Orwell's 1984 to the top of Amazon's bestseller lists. But while Orwell's classic dystopia remains prescient, argues Simon Willmetts, it was conceived before surveillance had reached today's levels of technological sophistication. High time, then, to explore this century's dystopian thinkers.
Poland's far-right government has drawn up proposals to change the boundaries of Warsaw, expanding its area five-fold and making it larger than Greater London. But bigger isn't always better: while the bloated metropolis would score electoral points for the government, it could spell disaster for the rest of the country.
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Matt Warren
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Katie Edwards, University of Sheffield
How to challenge centuries of bigotry with a single image – and bump Trump off the front pages.
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Politics + Society
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Calum Alasdair Young, University of Sheffield; Frederick Cowell, Birkbeck, University of London
The British government is actually suggesting quite a radical change as part of leaving the EU, but it doesn't want to make it too easy to understand.
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Gwilym Pryce, University of Sheffield
The Law and Justice party are making a grab for the Polish capital, by making it massive, but ultimately residents may pay the price.
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Paul Smith, University of Nottingham
The former PM stands accused of employing his wife for years without bothering to mention it to voters.
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Andrew Geddes, University of Sheffield; Luigi Achilli, European University Institute
A military option will be a lucrative one for smugglers.
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Richard Whitman, University of Kent; Katja Ziegler, University of Leicester; Maria Garcia, University of Bath; Phil Syrpis, University of Bristol
The government has set out its thinking on Brexit. So what have we learned?
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Tom Brocket, UCL
A New Jersey neighbourhood is coming to terms with a shocking new imposition from the government.
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Education
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Hilary Lappin-Scott, Swansea University
Targets and initiatives are a start but both men and women already in the field need to offer a helping hand.
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Science + Technology
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Nathan Case, Lancaster University
Historical records can help us understand what will happen to the northern lights.
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Caspar Addyman, Goldsmiths, University of London
Researchers teamed up with artist Imogen Heap to discover what music makes babies laugh.
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Business + Economy
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Hassaan Khan, Anglia Ruskin University
Investors have given Donald Trump the thumbs up, so far, but trader sentiment can't be guaranteed.
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Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, University of Bristol
The best way to sell someone a service or product is by speaking their language.
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Arts + Culture
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Simon Willmetts, University of Hull
Every crystal ball has a shelf life, even the most prescient.
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Health + Medicine
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Neil Gibson, Heriot-Watt University; Robert McCunn, Saarland University
As the RBS Six Nations rugby tournament begins, the risk of injury is back in the limelight.
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