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 pay deals

Humiliation for Putin

THE WEEK

The Week

The prisons crisis

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

A-level results

Extreme misogyny

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

Viewpoint: Outstaying the welcome

Farewell

The voice of Britain’s far-right • Tommy Robinson is the best-known figure on the UK’s extreme-right, and has been accused of playing a part in inciting the recent riots

Robinson’s legal woes

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Trump: flustered by the Harris surge

The Nord Stream mystery: finally solved?

The appalling reality of the world’s forgotten war

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Mpox: a public health emergency

Sue Gray: a power struggle at No. 10?

Stonehenge: a transformative discovery

Raygun: heir to Eddie the Eagle?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: Boehly’s £1bn Chelsea underwhelm again

Cricket: a thrilling end to a testing year for the Hundred

Is it time for tennis to embrace VAR?

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The UK-EU divorce

Hitler’s People

Home Is Where We Start

Banal Nightmare

Edinburgh Festival hits soon heading elsewhere

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams – On Tour: deeply moving television

Exhibition of the week Lowry and the Sea • Granary Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland (01289-330999). Until 13 October. Free entry

What to see in Edinburgh

Best books… Caroline Lucas • The former MP and Green Party leader picks her favourites. She will be talking about her new book, Another England (Hutchinson Heinemann £22), at the Queen’s Park Book Festival on 31 August (queensparkbookfestival.co.uk)

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming

Flats in historic buildings

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: pork and prawn wontons (hoành thánh)

New cars: what the critics say

The best… car vacuums

Tips… to help teens eat less ultra-processed food

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the best AI interior design platforms

This week’s dream: a quirky Californian wine region

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Actor dubbed “the most handsome man in the world”

Pioneering chief executive of YouTube

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Darktrace: double tragedy casts dark cloud

Issue of the week: high stakes at Jackson Hole • The US Fed is at a policy crossroads and must tread carefully to avoid a rocky denouement

Making money: what the experts think

Carrying on

Commentators

City profile

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