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

Russia’s sham election

Sunak under pressure

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Extremism defined

Violent online content

Helpline U-turn

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 the theatre director Jenny Sealey

Viewpoint: The royal zoo

Farewell

The miners’ strike • It is 40 years since most of Britain’s coalminers went on strike, in the most bitter and divisive industrial dispute in recent history

The Battle of Orgreave

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

TikTok: an agent of Chinese propaganda?

Gangs have taken over the poorest country in the West

Olaf vs. Emmanuel: an ancient animosity

What the scientists are saying…

The world’s oldest forest

Whooping cough warning

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Vaughan Gething: a new leader for Wales

Mental health: the crisis in the workforce

Party funding: a “grubby” business

Britain’s vets: are they a rip-off?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Rugby union: the Six Nations ends with an epic “Le Crunch”

Football: an FA Cup quarter-final for the ages

A great Olympian bids farewell

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Defining extremism

A Very Private School

Little Englanders

The Painter’s Daughters

Theatre: Harry Clarke • Ambassadors Theatre, London WC2 (harryclarketheplay.com). Until 11 May Running time: 1hr 20mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax

Exhibition of the week Tropical Modernism: Architecture & Independence • V&A, London SW7 (020-7942 2000, vam.ac.uk). Until 22 September

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

Tate’s racist mural

Best books… William Hague • The politician and biographer chooses his favourites. He will be interviewed about his life in politics at the Oxford Literary Festival, at 5pm on Sunday 24 March (oxfordliteraryfestival.org)

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming

Gatehouses and lodges

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: chickpea, cavolo nero and harissa stew • Tinned tomatoes are great for making a rich sauce, whether as the main attraction or as a support act for other ingredients, says Samuel Goldsmith. Here, they’re the perfect base for loading with veg and spicy harissa. Don’t feel bound by these vegetables: I often swap the new potatoes for sweet potatoes, cavolo nero for spinach or cabbage, and the courgette for a red pepper.

New cars: what the critics say

The best… folding smartphones

Tips… cheap design hacks for a stylish home

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the best British walking festivals

This week’s dream: Puglia’s rich medieval heritage

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

French Resistance worker who painted life...