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Angela Merkel has been such a distinctive presence in world politics during her time as German chancellor that it’s almost impossible to imagine a world without her at the top table. But that world will soon become a reality. Germans go to the polls to choose her replacement this Sunday.
In his assessment of her tenure, Merkel biographer Matt Qvortrup identifies the key characteristics that have turned her into a political legend, and even a verb. You might not find her very exciting, but that’s precisely the point.
On the high street, two giants of retail are exiting the scene, too. Gap and Benetton once dominated the clothing industry – so where did it all go wrong? And as a new animation launches in the UK, we ask: is it “grossly offensive” to
satirise Prince George?
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Laura Hood
Politics Editor, Assistant Editor
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Matt Qvortrup, Coventry University
How many other world leaders can claim to have become a verb?
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Thomas R Buckley, University of Sheffield
How the big brands made it.
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Adam J Smith, York St John University; Jo Waugh, York St John University
Royal satire has softened over the last 300 years, but audiences are more sensitive to barbs against the institution.
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Politics + Society
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Geoff Mulgan, UCL
What a COVID inquiry will probably look like and what it should really look like.
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Kambaiz Rafi, PhD, UCL
The Taliban faces a huge struggle to impose its rule on a country that has always proved difficult to govern.
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Kimberly Speers, University of Victoria
Justin Trudeau has been elected Canadian prime minister for the third time. But he failed to win the majority he wanted.
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Tim Luckhurst, Durham University
It took nearly two years for the Royal Navy to tell the story of the heroic voyage of the crippled submarine HMS Triumph.
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Aashish Velkar, University of Manchester
A look at the many systems of measurement that have been lost and changed throughout history.
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Health + Medicine
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Ana Valdes, University of Nottingham; Amrita Vijay, University of Nottingham
We have trillions of microbes in our gut – and each do something different for our body.
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Andrew Whitehouse, The University of Western Australia; Jonathan Green, University of Manchester; Kristelle Hudry, La Trobe University
While most children still had some level of developmental difficulties, the therapy boosted their social communication skills, leaving them less likely to meet the criteria for an autism diagnosis.
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Pieter Vancamp, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN); Barbara Demeneix, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)
A new study shows that the pesticide pyriproxyfen – widely used in Brazil during the Zika outbreak of 2015 – could disrupt thyroid hormones and thus affect brain development in children.
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Business + Economy
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Daniel Tischer, University of Bristol; Adam Leaver, University of Sheffield; Jonathan Beaverstock, University of Bristol
CLOs are said to be far safer than the derivatives that nearly brought down the global banking system in 2007 – but the cracks are beginning to show.
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