The Week UK

The best of the media in one magazine. Each issue stitches together news and views from more than 200 global news sources into an utterly enjoyable, informative read.

The main stories… …and how they were covered

The EU reset

It wasn’t all bad

THE WEEK

The Week

The third runway

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Letby case challenge

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 lawyer and writer Nemone Lethbridge

Moving the Mona Lisa

Farewell

The “spy cops” scandal • A public inquiry is laying bare decades’ worth of dubious tactics by undercover police officers

Bob Lambert, undercover father

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids

Mission aborted: Trump’s federal spending freeze

Best of the American columnists

The catastrophic conflict looming in the heart of Africa

Allying with Germany’s far-right: the breaking of a taboo

What the scientists are saying…

Penguins at risk from a “megaberg”

Pesticide ban

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Disaster in DC: politicising a tragedy

DeepSeek: the battle for AI dominance

Sickness benefits: the case for urgent reform

Generation Z: done with democracy?

Wit & Wisdom

Six Nations: England’s “damaging” defeat

Football: “humiliation” for Manchester City at the Emirates

England slump to heavy defeat against India

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

What kind of growth?

Review of reviews: Books

Theatre: Inside No. 9: Stage/Fright • Wyndham’s Theatre, London WC2 (0344-482 5151). Until 5 April Running time: 2hrs 20mins

Podcasts… riveting history and portraits of America

Film & TV

Brian and Maggie: Channel 4 drama about an interview with the Iron Lady

Exhibition of the week Iconic • The Holburne Museum, Bath (01225-388569, holburne.org). Until 5 May

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

A $50 van Gogh?

Best books… James Birch

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Best properties on the market

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: bucatini alla zozzona

New cars: what the critics say

The best… new smartphones

Tips of the week… how to sleep well

And for those who have everything…

The internet… alternative travel booking platforms

This week’s dream: Java’s ancient city of culture

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Sixties icon who became a symbol of female resilience

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

AstraZeneca: vaccines spat highlights investment tensions

Issue of the week: interesting times • Pressure is mounting on central bankers as the interest rate debate gets political

Tariffs: the market fallout

Indian IPOs

Commentators

City profile

Who’s tipping what

Cocaine galore: how a remote island was inundated with drugs • When residents of São Miguel, the largest of the Azores islands, found half-a-tonne of drugs washed up on the beach, they had no idea how much their lives were about to change. By Olivia Acland

Crossword

Big picture news, balanced views