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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Everything we know about whether schools will be ready to reopen
feature Teachers raise concern over introducing mass testing before students return
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How Belgium succumbed to the highest Covid death rate in the world
feature Regional divisions and flawed reporting of deaths put EU nation at the top of the table nobody wants to lead
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The reason Boris Johnson won’t end lockdown sooner
feature No. 10 is dismissing suggestions of speedier end to third national shutdown
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Family of Malcolm X claims letter proves FBI and NYPD involved in his murder
Speed Read Daughters of assassinated civil rights leader demand reopening of investigation
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Why is the roadmap out of the UK’s ‘final lockdown’ so long?
Today's Big Question Plans to ease restrictions faster were shelved after warning from government advisers
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Who are the warring factions in No. 10 - and can Johnson make them down arms?
Today's Big Question Downing Street descends into infighting as PM plots pandemic course
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Quiz of The Week: 13 - 19 February
Puzzles and Quizzes Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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David Frost appointed ‘minister for Brexit Britain’ after No. 10 ‘power struggle’
Under the Radar Unelected peer will begin cabinet role next month seeking to ‘maximise post-Brexit trading opportunities’
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Keir Starmer lays out his vision for Labour - but will it work?
Today's Big Question Opposition leader calls for ‘biggest economic shake-up since WWII’
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Everything we know about the princess held hostage by billionaire ruler of Dubai
Speed Read Princess Latifa tried to flee emirate in 2018 but now ‘fears for her life’ after being captured
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How the UK is handling the Kent coronavirus strain
feature Study finds variant discovered prior to Christmas may be 70% more deadly
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How India may have suppressed coronavirus while reopening its economy
feature Experts left searching for answers after dramatic - and unexplained - decline in Covid infections
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MEPs urge EU to take ‘concrete’ action over Hungarian media crackdown
Why Everyone’s Talking About Demand comes as Viktor Orban strips last independent radio station of broadcast license
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What Donald Trump’s impeachment acquittal means for the Republican Party
Today's Big Question GOP left grappling over future after former president escapes conviction
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The three scenarios being drawn up by ministers for ending Covid lockdown
Under the Radar Plans are based on vaccine success and range from ‘optimistic’ to ‘pessimistic’
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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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Could The Spectator’s Alex Salmond court case bring down Nicola Sturgeon?
Under the Radar Pundits believe legal challenge could trigger release of evidence that implicates Scottish first minister
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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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Will the Sturgeon-Salmond split sink Scottish independence?
Today's Big Question Dispute over sexual harassment allegations could bring down Scotland’s first minister
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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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