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Asylum hotels: everything you need to know
The Explainer Using hotels to house asylum seekers has proved extremely unpopular. Why, and what can the government do about it?
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Shein in Paris: has the fashion capital surrendered its soul?
Talking Point Despite France’s ‘virtuous rhetoric’, the nation is ‘renting out its soul to Chinese algorithms’
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Massacre in the favela: Rio’s police take on the gangs
In the Spotlight The ‘defence operation’ killed 132 suspected gang members, but could spark ‘more hatred and revenge’
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The John Lewis ad: touching, or just weird?
Talking Point This year’s festive offering is full of 1990s nostalgia – but are hedonistic raves really the spirit of Christmas?
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Quiz of The Week: 8 – 14 November
Quiz Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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The Week Unwrapped: Can musicians challenge Putin?
Podcast Plus who were the ‘human hunters’ of the Bosnian war? And what should happen to captive penguins?
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Train Dreams pulses with ‘awards season gravitas’
The Week Recommends Felicity Jones and Joel Edgerton star in this meditative period piece about a working man in a vanished America
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Middleland: Rory Stewart’s essay collection is a ‘triumph’
The Week Recommends The Rest is Politics co-host compiles his fortnightly columns written during his time as an MP
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Othello: a ‘deeply nasty tale of murder and manipulation’
The Week Recommends Toby Jones and David Harewood star in Tom Morris’s take on Shakespeare’s tragedy
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All’s Fair: Ryan Murphy’s legal drama is an ‘abomination’
Talking Point Kim Kardashian is at best ‘inoffensively useless’ in this glossy show about an all-female law firm in Los Angeles
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Who were the ‘weekend snipers’ of Sarajevo?
Under the Radar Italian authorities launch investigation into allegations far-right gun enthusiasts paid to travel to Bosnian capital and shoot civilians ‘for fun’ during the four-year siege
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The best true crime podcasts to binge now
The Week Recommends Electrifying investigations from Coining It to Wisecrack
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The future of the Paris Agreement
The Explainer UN secretary general warns it is ‘inevitable’ the world will overshoot 1.5C target, but there is still time to change course
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A ‘golden age’ of nuclear power
The Explainer The government is promising to ‘fire up nuclear power’. Why, and how?
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Massacre in Darfur: the world looked the other way
Talking Point Atrocities in El Fasher follow decades of repression of Sudan’s black African population
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Trump’s trade war: has China won?
Talking Point US president wanted to punish Beijing, but the Asian superpower now holds the whip hand
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Why Trump pardoned crypto criminal Changpeng Zhao
In the Spotlight Binance founder’s tactical pardon shows recklessness is rewarded by the Trump White House
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Quiz of The Week: 1 – 7 November
Quiz Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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The Week Unwrapped: Are British rappers the world’s best?
Podcast Plus can the Maldives quit smoking? And can whales lead us to immortality?
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Bugonia: ‘deranged, extreme and explosively enjoyable’
Talking Point Yorgos Lanthimos’ film stars Emma Stone as a CEO who is kidnapped and accused of being an alien
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The Revolutionists: a ‘superb and monumental’ book
The Week Recommends Jason Burke ‘epic’ account of the plane hijackings and kidnappings carried out by extremists in the 1970s
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Jeremy Hunt picks his favourite books
The Week Recommends The former chancellor shares works by Mishal Husain, Keach Hagey, and Johan Norberg
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Peter Doig: House of Music – an ‘eccentric and entrancing’ show
The Week Recommends The artist combines his ‘twin passions’ of music and painting at the Serpentine Gallery
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Dead Man Walking: searing contemporary opera is a ‘triumph’
The Week Recommends Death row drama ‘deals with the very essence of morality, judgement and conscience’
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