1+ day, 25+ min ago   (203+ words) Though it is not the industry titan it once was, the company’s fall could ‘cause a whole ecosystem to collapse’ Compared with the likes of BMW (which sold more than 2.5 million cars last year), JLR is a “minnow”, said…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (284+ words) Patriot Platform protests disrupted the UK’s biggest ferry port for hours, and tried to prevent lifeboats from rescuing asylum seekers “Sadly, we’ve become used to far-right protests in recent years,” said Joe Mulhall in The Guardian There…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (298+ words) New season is fun but lacks the energy that fizzed through the director’s early work Guy Ritchie made his name in the 1990s with films set in cartoonish criminal underworlds; but he is himself of posh stock, and owns a shooting…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (310+ words) Willem Dafoe plays a poet rediscovered late in life “There’s a marvellous tenderness and generosity to this elegant tale of autumnal regret; an intimate movie acted with effortless grace by Willem Dafoe,” said Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian. Dafoe plays…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (532+ words) Will Barker joined The Week team as a staff writer in 2025, covering UK and global news and politics. He previously worked at the Financial Times and The Sun, contributing to the arts and world news desks, respectively. Before that, he…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (387+ words) Self-styled ‘shadow home secretary’ is a ‘slowly ticking timebomb’ who could scupper his party’s chance of power, say critics “Zia Yusuf is a brilliant man, and he’s a genius actually, and he’s an incredible communicator,” Tory defector and Reform member…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (513+ words) Former prisoner George Desmond Kamurasi in line to be new king of Tooro but will he accept crown? A non-league footballer who “revs up teammates with F-bombs in a thick London accent” has become the “unlikely successor to the throne…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (360+ words) Learning by playing while cooking Watermelon, blue cheese, extra-virgin olive oil, flaky salt, fresh ground black pepper. Five ingredients, one ferocious overturning of how you think about a favorite fruit. Let’s dig further into the wonder of this watermelon salad....

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (335+ words) Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (332+ words) ‘Absorbing and informative’ biography reveals another side to Stephen Hawking “What a challenge”, said Liz Else in New Scientist. Penning the “first major biography” of Stephen Hawking with the theoretical physicist’s estate and the “whole scientific world” all “watching closely…...