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Matt Hancock’s resignation has seen Sajid Javid return to the cabinet as health secretary. Javid has made it clear that he wants to see restrictions in England lifted as soon as possible.
Economic recovery and a return to normality are what we all want, says Trish Greenhalgh. But in an open letter to the new health secretary, she warns against pitting recovery against protecting public health. These are two sides of the same coin and reinforce one another. This means that some measures currently in place – such as indoor mask wearing and social distancing – may need to stay in place for a while longer.
England play Germany in the Euros later today, and if it goes to penalties, history suggests England will lose. If things are to be different, we English may need to start thinking and talking about the team differently. The stereotype that England is poor at penalties could make the players perform worse at spot-kicks.
And the fact that UK house prices have been rising quickly over the last year makes the housing market more vulnerable to an external shock. The risk of a fall is therefore higher than most people think.
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Rob Reddick
Commissioning Editor, COVID-19
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Trish Greenhalgh, University of Oxford
Protecting people's health and stimulating economic recovery are one goal, not competing aims.
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Tim Rees, Bournemouth University; Jessica Salvatore, Sweet Briar College
England players may be affected by the negative stereotype that they're terrible in a penalty shootout.
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Never this cheap again?
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Geoff Meen, University of Reading
House prices have been stronger than most had expected at the start of the pandemic, but can they continue rising?
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Health + Medicine
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Francois Balloux, UCL
Even well-intended studies can cause harm through the nocebo effect.
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Paul Hunter, University of East Anglia
Despite having left people more exposed to the delta variant now, the strategy helped protect the most vulnerable during the second wave, so was the right call.
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Claas Kirchhelle, University College Dublin; Rebecca Glover, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
A new network of public clinical trials institutes is urgently needed to replenish the empty pipeline for new antibiotics.
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Business + Economy
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Lucy Wishart, University of St Andrews
Financial accounts don't currently factor in environmental problems.
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Enrico Bonadio, City, University of London; Magali Contardi, Universidad de Alicante
Rooibos tea is the first African product to receive EU protected designation. What does this mean for the region where it's grown?
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Politics + Society
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Parveen Akhtar, Aston University
Labour needs to reconnect with its traditional base and try to prevent George Galloway from splitting the Muslim vote.
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Yuen Chan, City, University of London
Mainland China is tightening the screws on press freedom in Hong Kong.
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Arts + Culture
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Alexander Sergeant, University of Portsmouth
Cinderella has been taken further and further away from its origins that we forget it was originally a radical story about female desire, servitude and violence.
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Science + Technology
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Emma Dunne, University of Birmingham; Bethany Allen, University of Leeds
Today, Earth's biodiversity is highest at the equator – but it hasn't always been this way.
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