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Editor's note
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Brexit has been extended once again – this time for another six months following Theresa May’s appeal for more time. May had wanted a shorter extension and many in the EU wanted far longer. So how did the two sides land on October 31 as the new departure date? Nieves Perez-Solorzano explains.
Julian Assange was arrested in London yesterday. British police pounced when the government of Ecuador decided it no longer wanted to grant him asylum in its embassy. We have a recap of the legal facts in this singular case.
And Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has been forced out of office after 30 years in power. His resignation comes after days of sustained protest that saw hundreds of thousands of Sudanese stage a sit-in at the military headquarters in the capital, Khartoum. Andrew Edward Tchie examines the factors that led to Bashir’s ouster and looks ahead to what might lie ahead for a country that hasn’t had democratic leadership in decades. But who was
Omar al-Bashir, and how did he stay in power for three decades? Martin Plaut profiles the rise of Sudan’s military autocrat.
The Clock, an installation by American artist Christian Marclay featuring a montage of thousands of film and television images of clocks, edited together so they show the actual time over a 24-hour period, has been wowing crowds since it was launched in 2010. Historian Jean-Michel Johnston went to see it recently at London’s Tate Modern gallery and it made him think about how, since people learned to measure it, time has become an over-riding
obsession with humans.
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Laura Hood
Politics Editor, Assistant Editor
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Top stories
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Theresa May has been granted a Brexit ‘flextension’ until the end of October.
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Nieves Perez-Solorzano, University of Bristol
The UK has until October 31 to get its house in order.
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Gbenga Oduntan, University of Kent
The Wikileaks founder has been removed from the Ecuadorean embassy after nearly seven years.
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Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir has resigned after three decades in power.
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Andrew Edward Tchie, University of Essex
Sudanese protesters against al-Bashir's regime have scored an important victory. But there's a long way to go before democracy is restored.
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Jean-Michel Johnston, University of Oxford
Critically acclaimed art installation highlights the way that the ubiquity of clocks and watches has transformed our relationship to time and the present.
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Environment + Energy
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Steve Westlake, Cardiff University
Global problems need global solutions. But what you do personally can shift what's seen as 'normal'.
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Joanna Boehnert, Loughborough University
Humankind already has the knowledge to make sustainable and socially just ways of living on this planet possible. But new types of design and economics are needed for anything to change.
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Stephen Woroniecki, Lund University
George Monbiot talks with an ecologist about natural solutions to the climate crisis.
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Health + Medicine
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Amy Brown, Swansea University; Gretel Finch, University of Bristol; Heather Trickey, Cardiff University
Mothers are told to stop breastfeeding when taking certain medications – even if they won't harm their baby.
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Anita Setarehnejad, Cardiff Metropolitan University; Ruth Fairchild, Cardiff Metropolitan University
As we get older, the way we experience taste can change drastically – but it's not all down to one sense.
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Business + Economy
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Robert Jupe, University of Kent
A recent damning report on probation shows the need to reassess outsourcing by the public sector.
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Politics + Society
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Martin Plaut, School of Advanced Study
Al-Bashir's ability to play a skillful combination of internal and external balancing acts, plus ruthless repression and a divided opposition, kept him in power for three decades.
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Science + Technology
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Hugh Hunt, University of Cambridge
With further technology required and practical uncertainties, time is running out for them to be useful in the fight against climate change.
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Cities
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Jenny McArthur, UCL; Tim Moonen, UCL
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