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

Biden drops out

The Labour revolt

THE WEEK

The Week

The Just Stop Oil five

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Damning Covid report

Tory leadership contest

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 writer David Nicholls

Viewpoint: The centre ground

Farewell

Lucy Letby: a miscarriage of justice? • Since Letby’s conviction for killing seven babies at a neonatal unit, experts have expressed grave doubts about the case

Stats and the “Texas sharpshooter”

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

The heir apparent: Donald Trump’s pick as running mate

Alice Munro: should we still read a fallen saint?

Best articles: International

The most lavish wedding the world has ever seen

What the scientists are saying…

Gulls feast on chips but favour fish

A faster treatment for MS

CrowdStrike: the IT update that wrought global chaos

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Donald Trump: is God on his side?

Europe: the threat of US isolationism

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

Formula 1: Lando Norris takes one for the team

Cycling: the history-making Slovenian who “never lets up”

England’s “unflappable” new spin bowler

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Are the Nimbys really to blame?

Haywire

Travelling

I Will Crash

Theatre: Hello, Dolly! • London Palladium, London W1 (020-3925 2998). Until 14 September

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Lady in the Lake: period murder-mystery starring Natalie Portman

Exhibition of the week Leonora Carrington: Rebel Visionary • Newlands House Gallery, Petworth (01798-651002, newlandshouse.gallery). Until 26 October

Bill Viola (1951-2024): pioneer of video art

Best books… Patrick Bishop • The bestselling historian’s latest book, Paris ’44: The Shame and the Glory (Viking £25), comes out this week. Here he describes his five favourite books about the City of Light

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming TV

Houses for ramblers

Food & Drink

Baked ricotta with cherry tomatoes, chilli and sesame

The best… tents

Tips… to make you more productive

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… pick-your-own flower farms

This week’s dream: the beaches and mountains of Montenegro

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Sex therapist who wanted to leave the world a better place

Comedian whose debut album sold over a million copies

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Ryanair: a punishing, but revealing, profit warning

Issue of the week: Trump and the tech bros • Why are influential Silicon Valley billionaires throwing their weight behind the Trump campaign?

Making money: what the experts think

Eurostars

Commentators

City profiles

Shares

How laughing gas...