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We’ve probably all stomped out of a room after an argument at some point in our lives, and then regretted it. It doesn’t feel that good, and you know you have just lost the debate by losing your temper.
It turns out China is feeling the same way about its foreign policy. The stompy approach just hasn’t worked out as well as it was hoping. So President Xi Jinping is abandoning his “wolf warrior” diplomacy strategy – which has typically included a bit of shouting at other foreign leaders – and is looking for a new way of making allies. China expert Tom Harper explains the history of the wolf warrior policy and why the nation is changing its approach.
The largest local authority in Europe, Birmingham, has signalled it is effectively going bankrupt. Birmingham is not likely to be the last local council to make this kind of announcement. Researchers Yseult Marique and Eugenio Vaccari have been studying local council finance, and expect at least 26 more councils to follow in Birmingham’s footsteps in the next two years.
In the 20th century, millions huddled around television sets as humans touched down on the Moon for the first time, and for decades afterwards every space flight has drawn a massive TV audience. But it turns out we’ve been dreaming about Moon travel since medieval times, and writing down what we imagined it would be like. Ayoush Lazikani selects a few special stories from the past.
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Rachael Jolley
International Affairs Editor
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China’s president Xi Jinping is not due to attend the G20.
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Tom Harper, University of East London
China’s president Xi Jinping is testing out a “softer” foreign policy approach.
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Yseult Marique, University of Essex; Eugenio Vaccari, Royal Holloway University of London
More than a decade of austerity in English local government has squeezed councils to their utter financial limits.
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We have always wondered what was up there.
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Ayoush Lazikani, University of Oxford
Humans have always been fascinated by the moon and before we could really get there we travelled to it in our stories.
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Science + Technology
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Kirk Chang, University of East London
The chaos caused over the August bank holiday may well have been preventable.
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Monica Grady, The Open University
Could spherical metallic fragments be from a nuclear test?
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Politics + Society
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Chris Rolph, Nottingham Trent University
It’s not news that schools are in disrepair, but funding to fix them is in short supply.
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Kevin Gray, University of Sussex
Korean president, Yoon Suk-yeol, is branding indulging in a display of ‘red-baiting’ to cast his opponents as communists.
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Arts + Culture
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Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University
Corpus linguistics – using computers to analyse texts – can spot patterns and nuances that might otherwise go unnoticed.
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Niven Winchester, Auckland University of Technology
The Rugby World Cup kicks off this weekend with hosts France playing New Zealand. Here’s why the All Blacks are still favourites to win the tournament, despite not being the official top team.
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Business + Economy
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Stuart Mills, University of Leeds
The idea of gently tweaking our behaviour still makes political sense.
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Martin Owens, Sheffield Hallam University
Most companies don’t benefit from conflict, but some see past the operational risks to build or strengthen their bases in war zones.
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Environment
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Aimee Brett, Nottingham Trent University
Your less manicured garden has the potential to combat tackle climate change and help wildlife survive.
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Guillaume Latombe, The University of Edinburgh
Modern ecosystems are very different to how they were just a few centuries ago.
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Amirreza Mahmoudi, University of Saskatchewan
Heat pumps are essential for the large-scale adoption of more carbon friendly heating systems and recent research suggests a way forward for reducing one of the technology’s biggest hurdles — frost.
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Health
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Philip Conaghan, University of Leeds; Anna Anderson, University of Leeds; Hemant Govind Pandit, University of Leeds
It’s estimated one in five over-40s have chronic knee pain.
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Clint Witchalls, The Conversation
The Conversation has been following the trials and tribulations of semaglutide (Wegovy) as it made its way from lizard venom to blockbuster drug.
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Phoebe Holdenson Kimura, University of Sydney; Bianca Cannon, University of Sydney
Working out how much blood you’re losing and getting a sense of when it’s outside the normal range can be difficult. Recent research on the capacity of different period products could help.
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