Our friends in the US have a useful mnemonic: “Spring forward, Fall back”. It’s about as simple a way as you can get of describing the twice-annual ritual of changing the clocks to reflect the changing seasons. But there’s a growing body of research to suggest that moving the clocks twice a year is bad for our health. It’s mainly to do with our internal body clock, which controls everything from when we feel tired to when we feel hungry.

Gisella Helfer has researched this area and, while she questions the need for the time change given all the evidence to the contrary, here she offers some advice to help you and your body adjust.

Greater Manchester’s mayor, former Labour MP Andy Burnham, has been dubbed “King in the North” after a torrid week at loggerheads with Westminster over funding for his region to compensate for losses incurred as a result of increasingly harsh lockdown measures imposed by central government. The episode has highlighted the often fractious relationship between central and other tiers of government at local and regional levels. Here’s what behavioural science offers by way of explaining the difficulty of negotiations.

If you are watching your favourite sport this weekend, spend a minute thinking about the difficulties faced by elite women athletes, who typically earn a fraction of their male counterparts’ wages, an enduring problem made worse by the pandemic. And, when it comes to your own exercise regime, if you are feeling jaded, here are a few tips to put the spring back in your autumn.

From our colleagues around the world this week, we’ve read about Australia’s problems with nuclear waste, the prospect for peace in wartorn and exhausted Sudan and the challenges faced by New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern after her stunning election victory last weekend. And don’t forget to catch up with the latest US election news with the help of some of the sharpest political minds around the globe.

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