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 ceasefire deal: peace for Ukraine?

It wasn’t all bad

Europe’s defence

Seizing Russia’s assets

THE WEEK

The Week

Controversy of the week How to cut benefits

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

North Sea ship crash

Civil service job cuts

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 singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper

Viewpoint: Trump unbridled

Farewell

Is Trump a Russian agent? • “We have to consider the possibility that President Trump is a Russian asset,” former minister Graham Stuart tweeted last week. Do we?

Maga Putinism

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE…

Best of the American columnists

An opposition in crisis: the Democrats in disarray

The chancellor-to-be: redefining Germany’s role in the world

Norway’s windfall: should it go to Ukraine?

What the scientists are saying…

Genetically engineered “woolly mice”

The global obesity crisis

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Farage vs. Lowe: a clash of egos

Sentencing guidelines: two-tier justice?

J.D. Vance: Trump’s attack dog

Russia’s spies: skulduggery in Yarmouth

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Six Nations: England “take a big step forward”

Football: the new heights reached by Nottingham Forest

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

LETTERS • Pick of the week’s correspondence

Opting for private healthcare

ARTS • Review of reviews: Books

Theatre: The Seagull • Barbican Theatre, London EC2 (020-7870 2500). Until 5 April

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film & TV

Get Millie Black: gritty Jamaica-set police procedural

Exhibition of the week Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 • National Gallery, London WC2 (020-7747 2885, nationalgallery.org.uk). Until 22 June

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

A Brueghel “stolen by spies”

Best books… Peter Parker • The writer and biographer picks five favourites. His latest work is the acclaimed two-volume anthology Some Men in London: Queer Life 1945-1959 and 1960-1967 (Penguin £30 each), which came out last year

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming TV

Best properties on the market

What the experts recommend: fine food on a budget

Recipe of the week: sweet date and sour tamarind sea bass • I adore sweet and sour flavours together, and especially the combination of dates and tamarind, which is a match made in (food) heaven, says Noor Murad. This is a wonderfully easy dish to make, with super-punchy flavours. Serve it as a light lunch with some lightly dressed greens, or with rice for a more substantial meal.

Consumer

The best… filtered water dispensers

Tips of the week… how to grow flowers from seed

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… fine foodstuffs on a budget

This week’s dream: Australia’s other great reef

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Painter who was loved by the public and detested by critics

Refugee, international spy and wine merchant

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Tesla/SpaceX/Starlink: the Musk backlash gathers pace

Seven days in the...