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

Labour’s green U-turn

The Rafah offensive

THE WEEK

The Week

Tory leadership wobbles

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Labour antisemitism row

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 the actor Cillian Murphy

Viewpoint: Dreaming small

Farewell

Iran and the “Great Satan” • Why the US and the Islamic Republic of Iran have been at each other’s throats for more than four decades

“The wily fox”: Iran’s beef with Britain

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

America’s choice: the forgetful old man or the demagogue?

Best articles: International

El Salvador: the iron fist of “the world’s coolest dictator”

What the scientists are saying…

Earth once resembled a Smartie

The decline in child health

Tucker Carlson: truth-seeker or Kremlin stooge?

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Dentistry: the need for radical surgery

“Spatial computing”: a new digital frontier

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Six Nations: video technology denies Scotland victory

Golf: “debauched” scenes at the WM Phoenix Open

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The prospect of a united Ireland

Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe

Better Broken Than New

My Heavenly Favourite

Theatre: The Hills of California • Harold Pinter Theatre, London SW1 (0844-871 7622). Until 15 June Running time: 3hrs

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

One Day: triumphant adaptation of David Nicholls’s bestselling novel

Exhibition of the week Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism and Change • Royal Academy, London W1 (020-7300 8090, royalacademy.org.uk). Until 28 April

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

Trouble at the Neumanns’

Best books… Lisa St Aubin de Terán • The celebrated Anglo-Guyanese writer chooses her favourite books. Her new book – her first in nearly 20 years – Better Broken Than New: A Fragmented Memoir (Amaurea Press £19.95), is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for sale

Houses in romantic settings

What the experts recommend: fine food on a budget • For those who want to dine well without spending a fortune, here’s a selection of restaurants newly awarded a Bib Gourmand in the 2024 Michelin Guide. The award is given to establishments offering excellent, good-value cooking.

Recipe of the week: Singapore-style chilli seafood

New cars: what the critics say

The best…commuting kit

Tips… how to care for orchids

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… literary landmarks in the UK

This week’s dream: the natural glories of Gabon

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the Week

Versatile actor who played the “stupid boy” in Dad’s Army

Rugby all-time great known as “The King”

Companies in the news …and how they were...