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

“A fork in the road”

The honeytrap scandal

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Sliding into oblivion?

Gender identity review

Consultants strike deal

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

The royal fantasy

Farewell

The decline of the local newspaper • A vital bastion of democracy is perilously close to being lost

America’s “news deserts”

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

The “meme stock” that could undermine US democracy

Best articles: International

A sea change in Turkey: the humbling of Erdogan

What the scientists are saying…

The “negative leap second” is coming

Home hit by “space junk”

Pick of the week’s Gossip

The Hate Crime Act: an “especially bad law”

Assisted dying: time to end the taboo?

Nato: an unhappy 75th birthday

The Foreign Office: still fit for purpose?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: Manchester United’s chaotic season

Cricket: a new record innings at Lord’s

The rocky path to the “doping olympics”

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The public has a right to know

Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers

On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain

Choice

Theatre: Long Day’s Journey into Night • Wyndham’s Theatre, London WC2 (0344-482 5151). Until 8 June Running time: 3hrs

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

This Town: BBC drama about ska, the IRA, and much besides

Exhibition of the week Perth Museum and Art Gallery • Perth, Scotland (01738-632488, perthmuseum.co.uk). Now open to the public. Free entry

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

Looted Ukrainian art

Best books… Cath Kidston • The designer picks her favourite reads. She will be at the Festival of Gardens and Nature in County Laois, Ireland, talking about her geranium-based beauty brand C.Atherley, on 20 April (festivalofgardensandnature.com)

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming TV

Charming island dwellings

Food & Drink

Szarlotka (Polish apple cake and a meringue crumble topping)

New cars: what the critics say

The best… air fryers

Tips… how to restore a leather handbag at home

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the best music festivals in Europe

This week’s dream: an elegant old town in southern Cuba

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

SAS veteran at the head of a plot to kill Pablo Escobar

Novelist who had a bestseller with The L-Shaped Room

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

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Issue of the week: the stalled EV market • The industry faces a financial car crash amid China’s powerful advance

Gold and inflation: what the experts think

Triple hoorah?

Commentators

City profile

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