Everything you want to know about everything that matters.
Olly Mann and The Week take a look at the headlines and debate the topics of the past seven days. With Arion McNicoll, Abdulwahab Tahhan and Kate Samuelson.
You can subscribe to The Week Unwrapped anywhere you get your podcasts:
In this week’s episode, we talked about:
Alaa Abdulfattah, an Anglo-Egyptian activist jailed in Egypt, ended his hunger strike this week as the Cop27 weather summit drew to a close. and the foreign network in response, and why are there so few governments willing to confront Egypt’s leaders?
A new study in north-west England found that some of the region’s young people spend their free time alone. This turns out to be an update of the recent norm, in which adolescence marks a shift towards spending by others. to the maximum of their free time with friends, after the formative years when the parents are very numerous. But have virtual networks erased the difference between socializing and spending time alone?And they may blame today’s teens for running away from the real world.
This week, a front-page news report made headlines about a New York mother who was arrested after allowing her ten-year-old son to tattoo her call on his arm. The story is indicative of a broader tendency of young people to pass under the needle in greater numbers than their parents. But why have tattoos moved from counterculture to the mainstream, and what role have office attitudes, tattooed celebrities, and social media played in this?
The Week is a component of Future plc, a leading foreign media organization and virtual publisher. Visit our corporate © www. futureplc. com Future Publishing Limited, Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA. All rights reserved. Company registration number in England and Wales 2008885