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

The strike on aid workers

Thames Water sinks

THE WEEK

The Week

Beijing’s cyberattacks

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Assisted Dying Bill

Fatal delays in A&E

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 scientist Professor Tim Spector

Viewpoint: Adults at Hogwarts

Farewell

The birth of impressionism • 150 years ago this month, the first impressionist exhibition opened in Paris

Monet, the cheerful revolutionary

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

The Baltimore bridge collapse: a $3bn tragedy

Best articles: International

“A victory for democracy”: Senegal votes for change

What the scientists are saying…

The people who never forget

Shrinking populations

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Bankman-Fried: the fall of the crypto king

Angela Rayner: did she commit tax fraud?

Scotland’s hate law: a blow to free speech?

The DUP: reeling from a shock arrest

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: the “supreme” tactical brain guiding Arsenal

Boat Race: Cambridge triumph amid sickness and sewage

The new star of women’s basketball

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Military shavings

Caledonian Road

Rites of Passage

Hunt for the Shadow Wolf

Musical: Opening Night • Gielgud Theatre, London W1 (0344-482 5151). Until 27 July

Podcasts… on American lives and fake celebrity deaths

Film

A Gentleman in Moscow: Ewan McGregor shines in a charming period drama

Exhibition of the week Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron • National Portrait Gallery, London WC2 (020-7306 0055, npg.org.uk). Until 16 June

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

Brâncuşi revisited in Paris

Best books… Margaret Drabble • The prize-winning novelist and biographer picks her favourites. She will take part in two events at the Cambridge Literary Festival, including a talk about her life in writing on Sunday 21 April (cambridgeliteraryfestival.com)

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for sale

Properties in spectacular settings

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: gnocchi di spinaci (spinach gnocchi)

New cars: what the critics say

The best… portable projectors

Tips… to tackle common bathroom problems

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the best pop-up saunas in the UK

This week’s dream: cool summers in verdant Asturias

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Acclaimed sculptor known as the “poet of iron”

Bereaved father who campaigned against knife crime

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

McKinsey: a consultancy in need of its own medicine

Issue of the week: toppy markets? • Traders are torn between the fear of missing...