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Editor's note
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It’s not a big secret that multinational food companies fund a lot of nutrition research in academia. This shouldn’t be a problem, as long as the researchers are free to publish the results, regardless of the findings. But this turns out not to be the case, in some instances, as Sarah Steele and Lejla Sarcevic reveal. The food industry is not above suppressing findings and pulling the plug on studies when they don’t go their way.
Gavin Williamson was sacked as defence minister by Theresa May last week on suspicion of being the source of leaked information about cabinet disagreements over Huawei’s role in the UK’s forthcoming 5G network. We may never get to the truth of the matter (unless it is leaked) but former intelligence reporter Paul Lashmar says that politicians leaking to the press is a time-honoured practice. But, as Lashmar reports, this cloak and dagger
business is far harder thanks to modern technology.
Upwards of 225,000 Haitian children are enslaved. Economically poor women are compelled to give their children to female traffickers, who hand them over to other women who use them as domestic slaves. How does such a brutal system still proliferate? Fiona de Hoog Cius spent two years interviewing child traffickers, slaveholders and mothers in order to get to the bottom of this horrifying reality – she writes about her findings today.
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Clint Witchalls
Health + Medicine Editor
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Top stories
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Sarah Steele, University of Cambridge; Lejla Sarcevic, University of Cambridge
Some multinational food corporations may have learned a few tricks from big tobacco.
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Sacked: former UK defence secretary Gavin Williamson was dismissed following the alleged leak of sensitive government information.
EPA-EFE/Facundo Arrizabalaga
Paul Lashmar, City, University of London
Politicians have been leaking secrets to journalists as long as newspapers have existed. But it's getting more difficult thanks to surveillance technology.
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A woman walks along a street in Port-au-Prince's wealthiest district, Petionville. © Fiona de Hoog
Fiona de Hoog Cius, Sheffield Hallam University
Recognising the role of women in global child slavery is key to addressing it.
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Politics + Society
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Ed Bryan, University of Cambridge
As former director of the US Information Agency, Edward R. Murrow, once put it, presidential travel should be treated as a 'weapon' to influence popular opinion.
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Matthew Flinders, University of Sheffield
Ten years on from the MPs expenses scandal, there remains in Westminster a lingering culture of elitism and a 'we know best attitude'.
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Martina Tazzioli, Swansea University
Financial support for refugees is underpinned by conditions that can exclude those who want to live as independently as possible.
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Business + Economy
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Stefan Stern, City, University of London; Jon Stokes, University of Oxford
The quickest and simplest solution seems to be installing a new leader – someone with nerve, daring and, of course, charisma.
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Kunal Sen, University of Manchester
Modi has had mixed successes in delivering on big promises to transform India's economy.
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Cities
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Bilge Serin, University of Glasgow
Segregation is not just a problem in London – it's happening in cities all over the world.
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Education
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Christopher Timothy McGuirk, University of Central Lancashire
Play video games and learn a language – a researcher explains why it might be possible.
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Environment + Energy
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Germán Orizaola, Universidad de Oviedo
The initial impact of the catastrophe on nature was important, but the exclusion zone has now become a natural reserve.
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Science + Technology
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Fadi Safieddine, Queen Mary University of London
People could be asked to prove their identity to continuing posting political content or adverts on Facebook.
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Arts + Culture
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Raluca Radulescu, Bangor University
The young assassin and wannabe knight stand in the background but if their medieval influences are anything to go by, they could end up leading the final battle.
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