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Editor's note
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Chancellor Philip Hammond outlined an upbeat UK spring budget yesterday. Higher growth is forecast in the near-term and public borrowing is down from his last statement. Our panel of academic experts unpicks the key outcomes – for the UK economy, businesses big and small, taxes, savings, social care and education. Meanwhile, economists Costas Milas and Mike Ellington point to the broken forecasting tools at Hammond's disposal and warn of the impact of looming Brexit uncertainty.
Responses to the budget may be varied, but most academics seem to agree that Brexit is a bad thing. Paul A Taylor says the higher education sector is guilty of groupthink on the issue of leaving the EU – an organisation which, he argues, mirrors the undemocratic, bureaucratic style of today's universities.
Meanwhile, Elaine is a beautiful witch looking for love. She wants to be adored, lusted after, and treated like a trophy. This may not sound like ideal material for a feminist cult classic, but Marion Gibson explains why she thinks The Love Witch, a sumptuous, eye-popping film, is destined to be just that.
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Annabel Bligh
Business and Economy Editor
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Top story
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All smiles at 11 Downing Street.
EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga
Michael Kitson, Cambridge Judge Business School; Andrew Gunn, University of Leeds; Catherine Needham, University of Birmingham; Donald Hirsch, Loughborough University; Geraint Johnes, Lancaster University; Ian Greenwood, University of Leeds; Jonquil Lowe, The Open University; Kevin Farnsworth, University of York; Michael Devereux, University of Oxford; Simon Wren-Lewis, University of Oxford
Philip Hammond delivers his last Spring Budget on the state of the UK economy. Our panel of experts dissect what it says.
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Business + Economy
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Costas Milas, University of Liverpool; Mike Ellington, University of Liverpool
Recent history shows us why we should take the latest healthy forecasts with a pinch of salt.
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Education
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Paul A Taylor, University of Leeds
Undemocratic? Bureaucratic? The EU and universities have plenty in common.
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Simon Burgess, University of Bristol; Claire Crawford, University of Warwick; Lindsey Macmillan, UCL
New analysis shows access to grammar schools is highly skewed by a child's socioeconomic status.
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Arts + Culture
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Marion Gibson, University of Exeter
This is a thought-provoking, odd, shocking and beautiful movie about feminism, fantasy and film history.
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Rhea Seren Phillips, Swansea University
Welsh poetry has more in common with music than Shakespeare's sonnets or Keats's Romantic verses.
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Adam Behr, Newcastle University
Grassroots venues are run on tight margins, and have been under pressure for some time from external factors such as rising costs and gentrification.
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Politics + Society
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Andy Price, Sheffield Hallam University
Peers have sent the Brexit bill back to MPs with changes calling for a vote on a final deal, and the protection of EU nationals in Britain.
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Reuben Loffman, Queen Mary University of London
A deal to finally hold long-postponed elections has been reached, but violence and chaos still rule much of the country.
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Environment + Energy
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Robert John Young, University of Salford
If zoo data was 'open access' we could identify the worst before too many animals die.
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Science + Technology
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Kaye Richards, Liverpool John Moores University
Planet 50:50 is a worthy aspiration this International Women's Day – but there is still a mountain to climb and employers need to help.
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Heather Ellis, University of Sheffield
The likes of Charles Darwin and Humphry Davy weren't always seen as the powerful, authoritative heroes they're portrayed as today.
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Magdalena Zawisza, Anglia Ruskin University
Advertisers are partly to blame for women being underrepresented in traditionally male domains such as science.
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Health + Medicine
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Caroline Taylor, University of Bristol
Prison food budgets are as low as £1.87 per person per day. This may not be enough to provide adequate nutrition for a pregnant woman and her baby.
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James Brown, Aston University
Dr James Brown answered questions on Facebook Live from how much exercise you need to what you should eat afterwards.
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Ian Jones, Cardiff University
Many women are not getting the right kind of attention.
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Martine Hamann, University of Leicester
How to find a treatment for a phantom sound.
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