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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Quiz of The Week: 9 - 15 January
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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Beating Covid-19 provides 85% immunity, PHE study reveals
feature Recovering from the virus provides some protection - but scientists warn against shunning social distancing
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Why Italy’s government is on the verge of collapse
feature Political crisis triggered as ex-PM withdraws party from governing coalition
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Coronavirus: how Scotland split from England in its Covid-19 response
feature Stricter lockdown measures north of the border have not produced lower death rates
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Who will succeed Angela Merkel in one of Europe’s most powerful roles?
feature German chancellor’s CDU party will elect a new leader this week
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The black police officer who stopped mob from breaching US Senate chamber
Why Everyone’s Talking About Eugene Goodman ‘saved lives’ by diverting pro-Trump rioters to another part of the Capitol building
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Coronavirus: will crisis in NHS hospitals trigger lockdown tightening?
Today's Big Question Covid patients occupying 30,000 beds as government scrambles to stem rate of infections
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Quiz of The Week: 2 - 8 January
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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France’s Covid vaccine rollout flounders amid anti-vax backlash
Under the Radar Just 516 people given Pfizer jab in first week of mass vaccination scheme as doctors face bureaucratic chaos
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Plea for public to help find secret Second World War bunkers
Speed Read Hundreds of ‘Scallywag’ underground hideouts lie undiscovered in British countryside
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How Israel is winning the Covid-19 vaccine race
Under the Radar More than 12% of population have already had jabs - but Palestinians in occupied territories excluded from rollout
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Coronavirus: four key facts about the UK’s new year Covid spike
feature Almost 25,000 people in hospital with the virus as infections continue to climb nationwide
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Coronavirus: will more areas of the country face Tier 4 restrictions?
Speed Read London and Southeast first to be hit with new rules amid spiralling infections
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Coronavirus: what the new Covid-19 strain means for the UK’s vaccination plan
Today's Big Question Emergence of mutated virus may mean inoculation is more vital than ever
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GCHQ unveils annual Christmas card puzzle - can you solve it?
Speed Read Spy agency challenges ‘wise men and women’ to take on bauble brainteaser
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Coronavirus: Swedish king says nation has ‘failed’ in pandemic response
Speed Read Sweden has recorded almost 8,000 Covid deaths - a far greater tally those those of Scandinavian neighbours
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Quiz of The Week: 12 - 18 December
Speed Read Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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How the world responded to Britain’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout
In Depth Almost 140,000 people received Pfizer jab in first week of UK’s world-first mass immunisation campaign
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Christmas not cancelled despite scientists’ pleas to Boris Johnson
In Depth Prime minister standing firm on plan to ease Covid-19 restrictions over the festive period
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Alexei Navalny poisoned with negroni after being ‘tailed by hit squad’
Speed Read Reports say the FSB squad had been tracking Navalny since 2017
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Four things you may not know about Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy author John le Carre
Speed Read Famed espionage novelist dies from pneumonia at age of 89
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Coronavirus: test-and-trace callers worked just 1% of paid hours, watchdog finds
Speed Read Damming report calls for urgent improvements to £22bn system that failed to avert second lockdown
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Why everyone’s talking about the EU’s plan for a no-deal Brexit
In Depth Bloc publishes proposals as negotiations remain deadlocked ahead of Sunday deadline
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What EU leaders are saying about getting a Brexit deal over the line
In Depth Bloc publishes no-deal planning as negotiators head back to the table with new deadline
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