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What If Reform Wins: an ‘entertaining and downright terrifying’ bookThe Week Recommends Journalist Peter Chappell offers a speculative account of what might happen if Nigel Farage becomes PM
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The political controversy overshadowing the Venice BiennaleThe Explainer Protests, resignations and boycotts dominate opening of the ‘Art Olympics’
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Grooming gangs inquiry: UK scandal explainedThe Explainer Three-year statutory investigation will look into how gangs operated as well as alleged cover-ups by institutions such as the police and local authorities
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The best true crime podcasts to binge nowThe Week Recommends Electrifying investigations from Blood Memory to Wisecrack
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Can a peace deal be agreed between Iran and US?Today's Big Question Both sides want an end to the war but on their terms – and they remain far apart
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Restore Britain: is new far-right party a threat to Farage?The Explainer Rupert Lowe’s upstart outfit could cost Reform UK crucial votes or drag it even further to the right
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Will Thursday mark the end of the two-party system?Today's Big Question Fracturing of electorate ‘brings governability into question’ and ‘creates particular problems of democratic legitimacy’
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Magazine crossword: 1514Puzzles The weekly crossword from The Week
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A trip on England’s most glorious railwayThe Week Recommends ‘Fiercely undulating’ 73-mile route through the Yorkshire Dales and Cumbria
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Plaid Cymru’s road to powerThe Explainer After next week’s elections, the Party of Wales looks likely to become the largest group in the Welsh Parliament
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Is Palantir fit for UK consumption?Talking Point Supervillain or scapegoat? Controversial software firm’s inroads into British state systems are alarming to some
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Amlou cinnamon knots recipeThe Week Recommends Sweet and sticky, these pastries are stuffed with a Nutella-like paste
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Iran deadlock: is Trump now ‘stuck’?In the Spotlight The president may be ‘trying to look relaxed’, but upcoming midterms and rising oil prices are ramping up pressure
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The rise of the Greens: is their popularity sustainable?Talking Point Zack Polanski’s party is riding high in the polls, but face challenges
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Keir Starmer’s reprieve before perilous local electionsIn the Spotlight ‘No case to answer’ on claims PM misled Parliament over Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador
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Quiz of The Week: 25 April – 1 MayQuiz Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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The Week Unwrapped: Will we run out of helium?Podcast Plus, are soaring stock markets about to plummet? And should we replace tips with a compulsory service charge?
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Euan Uglow: An Arc from the Eye – ‘elegant and technically brilliant’ paintingsThe Week Recommends Artist of ‘uncompromising precision‘ created paintings of ‘almost eerie serenity’
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Properties of the week: energy-efficient housesThe Week Recommends Featuring homes in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Cornwall
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Vauxhall Astra 2026: ‘compelling’ update is a ‘return to form’The Week Recommends Latest version of the family hatch has a ‘new look’ and ‘fuss-free interior’
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: a ‘magnificent’ tragicomic satireThe Week Recommends Mark Gatiss is ‘hypnotic’ in Bertolt Brecht’s parable about Hitler’s rise to power
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‘Soulless, estate-approved’ Michael biopic is a disgraceTalking Point The late King of Pop glows with Christ-like goodness in airbrushed film
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Rose of Nevada: ‘terrifically atmospheric’ Cornish time travel movieThe Week Recommends Fishermen transported back to the 1990s in Mark Jenkin’s ‘almost biblical tale of sacrifice and loss’
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London Falling: Patrick Radden Keefe’s ‘page-turning’ new bookThe Week Recommends Investigation into the mysterious death of a teenage boy shines a light on the capital’s ‘sinister, exploitative, money-driven underbelly’
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