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
Jets for Ukraine
Braverman hangs on
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Surging immigration
Spirit of the age
Good week for:
Bad week for:
Sinn Féin victorious
Doctors to strike again
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 scientist Professor Sharon Peacock
Viewpoint: “Our NHS”
Farewell
Modi’s India • Can India under Narendra Modi still claim to be the world’s biggest democracy?
The Gujarat riots
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
The subway killing: a new front in the culture war
Best articles: International
Dashed dreams: the plight of China’s disillusioned youth
What the scientists are saying…
1.5°C limit could be breached by 2027
The cost of obesity
Pick of the week’s Gossip
Housing: time to build on the green belt?
Britain’s car industry: heading for a crash?
Filthy rivers: a £10bn clean-up plan
Harry and Meghan: a mystery in New York
Wit & Wisdom
Statistics of the week
Manchester City: “one of the best sides in history”
Commentary box
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
Braverman’s penance
Winnie & Nelson
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
Theatre: Anna Karenina • Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, until 3 June; Bristol Old Vic, 7-24 June Running time: 2hrs 25mins
Podcasts… all about politics
Film
Rolf Harris: Hiding in Plain Sight – documentary about a fearless abuser
Exhibition of the week Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris • Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex (01243-774557, pallant.org.uk). Until 8 October
Where to buy… • The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery
A Russian icon’s return
Best books… Alastair Campbell • The journalist and co-host of the podcast The Rest is Politics chooses titles linked to his new book, But What Can I Do? Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It (Hutchinson Heinemann £22)
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
New to subscription TV
Picturesque properties for less than £800,000
What the experts recommend
Recipe of the week
Rosé for under a tenner
New cars: what the critics say
The best… kettles
Tips… how to revive house plants
And for those who have everything…
Where to find… dog-friendly hotels in the UK
This week’s dream: on the trail of gods and heroes in Crete
Hotel of the week
Getting the flavour of…
Last-minute offers from top travel companies
Literary wunderkind whose career blazed “like a rocket”
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
BT: AI evangelism conceals mixed track record
Issue of the week: the reignited chip wars • In the teeth of mounting global tensions, the UK’s new semiconductor...