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This week in The Week

Here's what's in this week's issue of The Week magazine

8 February 2025

  • Main stories: Trump’s trade wars: Will his brinkmanship backfire?
  • Controversy: The third runway
  • People: Bill Gates’s troubled childhood
  • Briefing: The “spy cops” scandal
  • Best British article: A police force unfit for the 21st century
  • Best American article: Mission aborted: Trump’s federal spending freeze
  • Best International article: How war returned to DR Congo
  • Health & Science: Why it may be good to itch
  • Talking points: Disaster in DC: politicising a tragedy
  • Obituary: Marianne Faithfull: The turbulent life of a Sixties icon
  • The Last Word: Cocaine galore: how a remote island was inundated with drugs 

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