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What is The Week magazine?

What do Jon Snow and Sir Ranulph Fiennes have in common? They both read The Week – Britain’s fastest growing current affairs magazine, a magazine that will bring you up to speed with all the news and all the views in just 60 minutes. Click here for 6 FREE issues and experience The Week magazine for yourself.

The Week was first published in 1995 by Jolyon Connell, when he was working as foreign editor of the Daily Telegraph.  He realised that if he couldn’t keep up with the week’s news, what chance did the rest of us have?

In 1996, entrepreneur Felix Dennis acquired a majority shareholding in the magazine, which is now published by Dennis Publishing Ltd. Since then we’ve launched editions in the US and, most recently, in Australia, bringing global circulation to over 700,000.

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We all want to know what’s going on in the world, but few of us have the time to read one newspaper from cover to cover, let alone all of them. In Britain alone, they amount to a staggering 5,800 pages a week – almost ten million words. Now, there’s a plethora of news websites too. So, keeping up to date with what’s happening, and understanding all the issues, from all angles, has never been more difficult.

The Week is compulsive reading

But the answer is at hand – The Week. The Week takes the very best of the British and international news and comment, and distils it into just 35 succinct editorial pages, to help you keep abreast of events and form your own opinion of the latest issues. With the key stories delivered in bite-size chunks, you’ll get the whole picture quickly, and easily. The Week is compulsive reading.



The Week is the very best way to catch up with the week’s news and comment in just one hour. But the magazine isn’t just informative, it’s also entertaining. Within its 35 editorial pages, you’ll find everything from reviews of the latest books to the pick of the week’s gossip. There’s also City news, the best properties on the market, arts coverage, and much much more.

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