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Polling may well show Labour in excellent shape ahead of the election but impatience is mounting over its ultra-prudent approach to tax and spend. It’s true that winning back a reputation for economic competence has long been seen as the top prize for a party hoping to return to power, but there is such a thing as excessive caution. New survey findings suggest the public is not on board with the “Ming vase” strategy and is instead aching for a more ambitious
offering.
The British parliament has finally passed Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda bill, meaning that deportation flights can now finally take off – or can they? A legal expert has found that multiple obstacles still lie ahead, even now.
Plus, an expert on the role of testosterone in disease digs into the evidence for the idea that frequent ejaculation reduces the risk of prostate cancer.
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Laura Hood
Senior Politics Editor, Assistant Editor
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Matthew T. Johnson, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Matthew Flinders, University of Sheffield
Are Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves focusing on the same criteria for economic competence as Britain’s voters?
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Natalie Hodgson, University of Nottingham
UN human rights experts have warned that airlines transporting people to Rwanda could be complicit in human rights abuses.
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Daniel Kelly, Sheffield Hallam University
The link between ejaculation and prostate cancer explained.
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World
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Lauren Gould, Utrecht University; Linde Arentze, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Marijn Hoijtink, University of Antwerp
AI is enabling a huge number of decisions about who to target. They are not always the right ones.
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Recep Onursal, University of Kent
Kurds have had a history of discrimination perpetrated against them by the Turkish government.
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Jan Pospisil, Coventry University
Hopes for a peaceful resolution are fading as the Sudan civil war blazes into a second year.
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Politics + Society
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Laura Higson-Bliss, Keele University
It is difficult to argue that online comments can amount to criminal offences that threaten public order.
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Joshua Jowitt, Newcastle University
Like asking us to believe that 2+2=5, the bill requires decision makers to ignore documented fact and give legal priority to a fiction.
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Arts + Culture
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Dimitris Akrivos, University of Surrey
A harrowing and important depiction of a male victim of sexual abuse.
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Lizzie Wright, University of Leeds
Though she appears to be a child, we soon learn Abigail is centuries old, and has developed a habit for ‘playing with [her] food’
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Business + Economy
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Rama Kanungo, UCL
There are some fundamental differences between listing on the LSE and in the US – and they may be contributing to London’s decline.
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Peter Gittins, University of Leeds; Deema Refai, University of Leeds
Some farmers are bewildered and anxious about changes to the way they work.
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Environment
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Trevelyan Wing, University of Cambridge
Understanding Berlin’s nuclear exit, one year on.
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Marco Fusi, Newcastle University
Marine species respond to ocean deoxygenation in different ways depending on where in the ocean they live.
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Health
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Stephanie Alice Baker, City, University of London
Social media has transformed how we connect and communicate online — affecting even how we get health information.
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Andrew Lee, University of Sheffield
Smoking is the single greatest cause of ill health and death globally.
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Science + Technology
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Sean McMahon, The University of Edinburgh
The Perseverance rover has arrived at what’s thought to be an ancient shoreline on Mars.
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Jacqueline Boyd, Nottingham Trent University
The genetic mutations responsible for the unusual physical features in animals can also cause great harm.
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