Thursday. Which I know from the arrival of the TLS in the email inbox (de minimis promotional rate). Like oil running down the beard. The web interface is terrible, basically impossible to read all the way through without opening a few dozen seriatum tabs in the browser, and then it's in random order. The UK seems on a mission to destroy its internationally influential websites. Speaking piecemeal to the nations. The OED was revamped a few years ago, making it basically useless for many purposes. The BBC radio sites have been a complete mess for the past several months; the idea appears to be that they're geo-fencing almost all of the content to the UK, with some content available after a lag of a few weeks. (Perhaps this informed the recent shifts in In Our Time, which would no longer be available same-week worldwide.)
At any rate, with the publicly available snapshots of the first few pages as printed, and the scattershot piecemeal web interface, it's possible to meander through the Weekly Reader, and get some sense of the gestalt. The best way of thinking about the TLS is to imagine yourself as a great Arabian lord standing on his balcony in the evening, and a series of bedraggled urchins sprint into the courtyard and shout garbled versions of the interesting things going on in the other palaces. They're trying to seem impressive as they recite their speech up to the balcony, but the real task is to look past them to see if there's anything worthwhile in the thing they're decribing. One very useful bit is that the reviews will sometimes dismissively run through a list of the old scholarship, which can give you a good reading list.