Joe Evans
Joe Evans is the world news editor at TheWeek.co.uk. He joined the team in 2019 and held roles including deputy news editor and acting news editor before moving into his current position in early 2021. He is a regular panellist on The Week Unwrapped podcast, discussing politics and foreign affairs.
Before joining The Week, he worked as a freelance journalist covering the UK and Ireland for German newspapers and magazines. A series of features on Brexit and the Irish border got him nominated for the Hostwriter Prize in 2019. Prior to settling down in London, he lived and worked in Cambodia, where he ran communications for a non-governmental organisation and worked as a journalist covering Southeast Asia. He has a master’s degree in journalism from City, University of London, and before that studied English Literature at the University of Manchester.
Latest articles by Joe Evans
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Elite university drawn into sex abuse scandal as French reckoning escalates
Speed Read Hundreds of students are sharing allegations implicating top educational establishment
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Quiz of The Week: 6 - 12 February
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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What Israel’s lockdown easing plan may tell us about Boris Johnson’s roadmap
feature World leader in the vaccination race begins staged exit from the country’s third shutdown
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‘War debt’: is Germany too close to Russia for its allies’ comfort?
In Depth Clash over planned pipeline reignites concern over soft stance towards Moscow
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Does the media owe UK vaccine tsar Kate Bingham an apology?
Today's Big Question Her appointment by Boris Johnson triggered cronyism claims - but success of Covid jabs rollout is silencing critics
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How Southeast Asia’s poorest nations successfully suppressed Covid-19
feature Region has reported low infection and death rates following speedy responses to pandemic
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Why South Africa has stopped using the Oxford vaccine - and what it means for UK
feature Rollout of jab paused amid doubts about effectiveness against new coronavirus variant
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Quiz of The Week: 30 January - 5 February
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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Can ‘mixing and matching’ Covid vaccines boost protection?
Speed Read UK launches study into pairing Oxford and Pfizer jabs to improve efficacy
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What we can learn about vaccine efficacy from global rollout
feature Jabs race leader Israel is beginning to see fall in Covid infections
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Is the UK just two weeks from Covid recovery amid vaccine rollout success?
Today's Big Question Britain ‘past the peak’ of infections wave as protection starts kicking in for millions of jab recipients
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Can ‘super’ Mario Draghi rebuild Italy’s government?
feature Former European Central Bank chief accepts mandate to form new coalition
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What next for Myanmar after military coup?
feature Aung San Suu Kyi and other elected leaders detained as military seizes control
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Janssen’s single-shot Covid-19 vaccine 85% effective
feature Cheap and transportable jab provides good protection against serious symptoms
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Quiz of The Week: 23 - 29 January
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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Was EU solidarity to blame for bloc’s poor vaccination campaign?
Today's Big Question European leaders signed a series of vaccine deals but are lagging behind with rollouts
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How German media wound up misrepresenting the AstraZeneca jab
Under the Radar Political briefings - not facts and figures - may explain ‘incorrect’ claims
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Will the EU’s vaccine shortage trigger UK supply crisis?
Today's Big Question Bloc to tighten exports of Pfizer jab following AstraZeneca deliveries warning
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Meet the ‘vaccine king of India’ on front line of Covid battle
feature Adar Poonawalla bet big on Oxford vaccine - but plans to keep prices low for the world’s poorest countries
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Why the UK is refusing to give EU ambassadors full diplomatic status
feature Foreign Office ignoring calls to grant the usual privileges and immunities to the bloc’s representative
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Quiz of The Week: 16 - 22 January
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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Incest accusation inspires second French #MeToo movement
feature Waves of testimonies flood social media as member of Paris establishment faces abuse allegations
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How the UK is combatting Covid vaccination ‘blackspots’
Today's Big Question Jabs to be diverted to over-80s in areas struggling to keep up in national rollout
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How the world reported Alexei Navalny’s arrest
feature Poisoned Russian opposition leader detained after returning home from Berlin
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