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‘All you need to know about everything that matters’ is what ‘The Week’ says it offers you – a bit sweeping perhaps? After all, it doesn’t tell you what your other half was really up to at that office party, or how to open a milk carton without creating a dairy fountain. It does, however, give you a pretty good briefing on what’s happening in the world and how people are dealing with it. I’ve had a subscription to The Week for about...umm…four years, as far as I can remember – it works out cheaper that way - just over £1 per copy, rather than £1.65. I took up the special offer that you can still find ...

have subscribed to The Week magazine for over a year now and thought I was long overdue writing a review of the magazine. The Week is a weekly (thus the name) news magazine that covers all the weeks' main news stories from the UK and around the world. The magazines tagline - "All you need to know about everything that matters" is a great way of summing up the content as this magazine really does cover all the weeks news with not only the headlines but also view and opinions from various press sources. General ~~~~~~~~~ The magazine looks and feels aesthetically a little like private eye and is printed in A4 size on what looks and ...

The Week is an excellent weekly, condensed news magazine. It selects the most important and well-written news from many sources, and provides it all in one, easy to handle, entertaining magazine. However, where it particularly excels over more traditional news sources is not in its all-you-need-in-one-place-ness, but in its world consciousness. Whereas many newspapers tend to include very little coverage of world events, choosing only to include news of issues which they currently deem fashionable (heard much about the troubles in East Timor recently?) The Week includes a page entitled “Europe at a glance” and a two page spread, “The world at a ...