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UK chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled his fourth support package for businesses and workers afflicted by the coronavirus pandemic. Once again, it will cost billions of pounds, and few would bet on it being the last. Even now, UK debt looks to be heading for a whopping 120% of GDP, and the situation is little different in many countries in Europe and beyond.
With social distancing and other restrictions likely to endure long after a vaccine hopefully arrives in the first half of 2021, leading economist Anton Muscatelli lays down four priorities for governments to haul their economies back to prosperity.
In other news, Nokia of America has won a contract to build a 4G network on the Moon. It turns out that this could be bad news for radio astronomy. And we look at how a scene from Netflix horror series The
Haunting of Bly Manor sheds troubling light on the Bible’s approach to mental illness.
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Steven Vass
Business + Economy Editor
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UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveils his latest support package.
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Anton Muscatelli, University of Glasgow
The UK government has unveiled its latest package of support measures for businesses and employees, but it's only part of what should be prioritised.
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A partial lunar eclipse above the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire in 2019.
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Emma Alexander, University of Manchester
Radio telescopes are incredibly sensitive to phone network interference.
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Haunting scene: Jim Piddick as Father Stack in Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor.
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Candida Moss, University of Birmingham
A much talked-about scene from the latest Netflix horror raises important questions about how the Bible deals with mental health.
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Politics + Society
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Regina Keith, University of Westminster
If children are not given the nutrition they need, there are long-term effects on their health.
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Valentine Gavard-Suaire, Royal Holloway
It will take more than poster campaigns and Miss Universe Vietnam to prevent poor Vietnamese from seeking opportunities in the UK and elsewhere.
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Alex Nurse, University of Liverpool
History shows that revenge is a dish often served cold in Westminster.
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David Collinson, Lancaster University; Jeff Hearn, University of Huddersfield
The 2020 US election is a battle of two masculinities – one authoritarian, the other paternalistic.
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Matthew Finch, University of Southern Queensland; Marie Mahon, National University of Ireland Galway
Researchers are imagining what the world might look like in 2048 — and the new forms of inequality and injustice that might exist.
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Suze Wilson, Massey University
Leaders need to focus on minimizing the COVID-19 harm to both lives and livelihoods if they're to win support from the electorate.
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Arts + Culture
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Jamie Harris, Aberystwyth University
Only three non-English UK-based authors have ever won the Booker prize. And all three of them were published by London presses.
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Business + Economy
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David Comerford, University of Stirling
What Boris Johnson needs to learn from the Manchester funding debacle.
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Health + Medicine
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Gisela Helfer, University of Bradford
Time changes make many people feel tired, irritable, and unable to sleep.
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Environment + Energy
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Simone Abram, Durham University; Tom Pegram, UCL
The effects of climate change and mitigation are not just unequal between countries but also within countries.
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