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

Israel fights on

The Covid response

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A schism in Labour

Poll watch

Good week for:

Bad week for:

The King’s Speech

MP rape allegations

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 the actress and singer Lea Salonga

Viewpoint: The triumph of opinion

Farewell

The Taylor Swift phenomenon • How did the 33-year-old pop star build a record-shattering global music empire?

Swifties: Taylor’s army

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Sahra Wagenknecht: changing the face of German politics

Ils versus ielles: the battle over the French language

The 2024 election: a Democratic challenger steps forward

Ageing boomers: America’s looming crisis

What the scientists are saying…

Roosters recognise their reflections

The cost of avoidable deaths

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Ukraine’s counteroffensive: has it failed?

Armistice Day: no time for a protest?

The AI summit: Sunak meets Musk

SBF: the rise and fall of a “crypto king”

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

Football: another Premier League game spoilt by VAR?

Tennis: a shambolic end to the season in Mexico

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Protests and “British values”

Madonna: A Rebel Life

The Secret Life of John le Carré

The Iliad

Theatre: King Lear • Wyndham’s Theatre, London WC2 (0344-482 5151). Until 9 December Running time: 2hrs

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Banged Up: surprisingly illuminating reality TV series about prisons

Exhibition of the week The Cult of Beauty • Wellcome Collection, London NW1 (020-7611 2222, wellcomecollection.org). Until 28 April

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

The row over an African mask

Best books… Adam Sisman • The renowned biographer chooses five favourite books. His latest book, The Secret Life of John le Carré (Profile £16.99) – a follow-up to his 2015 authorised biography of the writer – is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for auction

Riverside houses for fishing enthusiasts

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: birria de res

New cars: what the critics say

The best… snow boots

Tips… how to deter outdoor nuisances

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the best inns in national parks

This week’s dream: an epic road trip in Western Australia

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

Model turned actor who made his name in Shaft

The last female agent from the SOE’s F section

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Musk’s Grok’n’roll

Issue of the week: WeWork’s crash into bankruptcy • Once the world’s most feted start-up, WeWork is now at the mercy of its...