What Keir Starmer can learn from ‘little creep’ Harold Wilson in dealing with an angry US presidentBenjamin Quail, Queen's University Belfast
Shabana Mahmood is wrong: refugee status was never ‘permanent from day one’Georgia Cole, University of Edinburgh
Are women more safe today in England and Wales than they were in the past – or less? What the evidence showsNicole Westmarland, Durham University
How big is the housework gender gap? It depends if the husband or wife answers the questionJoanna Syrda, University of Bath
Why women have to queue for the toilet – and what it says about how cities are designedBelen Martinez, Sheffield Hallam University
How to understand the post-Gorton and Denton national poll that puts the Greens ahead of LabourMatthew Barnfield, Queen Mary University of London
Starmer’s Iran approach may anger Trump, but it fits with his foreign policy philosophyJason Ralph, University of Leeds
Britain’s military presence in the Middle East – and how it could be dragged into warGeraint Hughes, King's College London
Late deciders, higher turnout: what the Gorton and Denton byelection taught us about votersHannah Bunting, University of Exeter; Jessica C. Smith, University of Southampton, and Lotte Hargrave, University of Manchester
How male rape myths stop some victims of sexual assault from getting justice – new studyLee John Curley, Glasgow Caledonian University; Dominic Willmott, Loughborough University, and Kennath Widanaralalage, King's College London
Why media were able to report the identities of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson as they were arrestedPolly Rippon, University of Sheffield
What Hannah Spencer’s historic win means for the Green party’s futureLouise Thompson, University of Manchester
I’m a linguist with Tourette’s – here’s what I want people to understand after Baftas controversyAmanda Cole, University of Cambridge
Victory in Gorton and Denton is historic for the Greens – and cataclysmic for Britain’s two-party politicsJonathan Tonge, University of Liverpool
Feel like you’re in a funk? Here’s what you can do to get out of it – and how you can prevent it from happening in the futureJolanta Burke, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
How to get control of your timeBoróka Bó, University College Dublin and Kamila Kolpashnikova, Western University
The hubris arc: how visionary politicians turn into authoritariansTrang Chu, University of Oxford and Tim Morris, University of Oxford
How domestic abusers use emotional bonding to control their victims – new studyMags Lesiak, University of Cambridge
Politics has always been a game – but why does it now feel like we’re being cheated?Tim Beasley-Murray, UCL
What interviews with ordinary Germans living under the Nazis can teach us about our current politicsMelissa Butcher, Royal Holloway, University of London
Women are three times as likely as men to feel unsafe in parks – here’s how we can design them betterAnna Barker, University of Leeds; Jennie Gray, University of Leeds, and Vikki Houlden, University of Leeds
Five ways you might already encounter AI in cities (and not realise it)Noortje Marres, University of Warwick
Thirty-five years since the wall fell, Berlin is divided – over what to do with crumbling communist buildingsKatrin Schreiter, King's College London
