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The Black Death: a ‘horribly compelling’ global history of the plagueThe Week Recommends Thomas Asbridge’s ‘powerful portrait of a world that stared death in the face’
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Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones: a luxury vacuum ‘you’ll actually enjoy using’The Week Recommends One of the ‘most innovative’ Dyson products of the last year, it is a ‘fantastic option’ for hard floors
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Properties of the week: remarkable conversionsThe Week Recommends Featuring homes in London, Glasgow and Suffolk
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A glorious trip through the Bergen islandsThe Week Recommends This gorgeous world of ‘picture-postcard’ seascapes and villages is worth exploring
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Renters’ rights: ‘a regulatory avalanche’Talking Point Labour has presented reforms as a ‘moral crusade’ against rogue landlords, but risks shrinking the rental market
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Why Palantir is fast becoming one of the world’s most notorious companiesThe Explainer CEO Alex Karp has recently called for universal conscription, encouraged the development of AI weapons, and condemned the West’s ‘vacant and hollow pluralism’
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Griddled olive, tomato & basil flatbreads recipeThe Week Recommends Warm, soft flatbreads are paired with salty olives
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s rivals unite to take him downIn the Spotlight An unlikely alliance has formed in the hopes of crowding out Israel's longest-serving prime minister
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Germany learns the cost of provoking TrumpTalking Point Friedrich Merz’s comments on ‘humiliated’ US have unleashed the president’s wrath
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Kimi Antonelli: the Italian teenager dominating F1In the Spotlight Mercedes wunderkind is proving a ‘mighty big thorn’ in the side of both his rivals and his British teammate, George Russell
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In Bloom: How Plants Changed our World – a ‘consistently illuminating’ exhibitionThe Week Recommends The Ashmolean’s show presents a ‘mix of the wonderful, the weird and the downright wacky’ of the plant world
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Labour leadership jostle: who will challenge Keir Starmer?Talking Point Runners and riders include Wes Streeting, Andy Burnham and Angela Rayner
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: an ‘effervescent’ new interpretationThe Week Recommends A ‘lively, progressive’ take in Birmingham has similar feel to Globe’s ‘effervescent comic performances’
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Hokum: haunting folk horror film packed with jump scaresThe Week Recommends Irish writer-director Damian McCarthy proves himself to be a ‘dab hand at suspense’
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