The Week UK

The Week covers the Best of the British and Foreign Media. With its non partisan reporting, The Week gives the reader an insight into all the the news, people, arts, drama, property, books and how the international media has reported it. This concise guide allows the reader to be up to date and have a wealth of knowledge to allow them to discuss all these key topics with their friends and peers.

It wasn’t all bad

Sunak’s green retreat

The “debanking” scandal

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Weaponising grain

Migrant barge

Strikes called off

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

Castaway of the week • This week’s edition of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs featured Formula 1 executive Toto Wolff

Viewpoint: Too famous for film

Farewell

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Could Barbie be brainwashing America’s youth?

Best articles: International

Netanyahu’s reforms: an existential threat to Israel?

What the scientists are saying…

Is AMOC really about to collapse?

The rise of serious illness

The First Son: could he cost Joe Biden the election?

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Malkinson: a shocking failure of justice

British shops: fighting a crimewave

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

The Ashes: Stuart Broad’s “fairy-tale ending”

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The kindness of Sinéad O’Connor

Book of the week

Novel of the week

Podcasts… on relationships, birdlife and the yeti

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Dreaming Whilst Black: wry comedy about a struggling filmmaker

Exhibition of the week Grayson Perry: Smash Hits • National Galleries of Scotland (Royal Scottish Academy), Edinburgh (0131-624 6200). Until 12 November

Where to buy… • The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery

Losing the biscuit

Best books… Dan Walker • The Channel 5 News anchor and former BBC Breakfast presenter picks his best books. His latest book, Standing on the Shoulders: Incredible Heroes and How They Inspire Us (Headline £22), is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to subscription TV

Houses with gorgeous gardens

Food & Drink

Cheesy kimchi toastie with bloody mary mayo

Lotus Eletre: “the world’s best all-electric hyper SUV”?

The best… record players

Tips of the week… easy ways to enhance flavour

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… four of Britain’s loveliest stations

Three fabulous culinary adventures

The trend for “sleep tourism”

In the saddle in Kyrgyzstan

Irish singer and activist who became an unlikely pop star

Acclaimed broadcaster who spent over 30 years at the BBC

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Birki stocks

Mattel’s triumphant big-screen debut • The toymaker’s disruptive arrival in Hollywood comes at a bad time for the movie industry

The housing market: what the experts think

The trouble in China

Commentators

City profiles

Shares

How three amateurs cracked Mary Queen of Scots’ secret code • For centuries, a trove of encoded letters lay unidentified in a Paris archive. Then a patents expert, a music professor and a software engineer decided to...