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.

Ukraine’s dam disaster

The Covid Inquiry

It wasn’t all bad

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Taking on the death tax

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Prince Harry in court

Migration plan “working”

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 journalist Jeremy Bowen

Viewpoint: The Bezos effect

Farewell

Center Parcs: “the paradise machine” • The holiday resort chain is up for sale, with a price tag somewhere north of £4bn. What is the secret of its success?

A short history of the British holiday

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Taking Pride: the virtue signals of corporate America

Best articles: International

Will China win the race to become the AI superpower?

What the scientists are saying…

How AI can protect our rivers

Hope for migraine sufferers

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Kosovo: Europe’s other conflict

AI: a case of “regulatory sabotage”?

Keir Starmer: invading Tory territory

Succession: a 21st century masterpiece?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Cricket: England suffer a “huge blow” before the Ashes

Football: Manchester United have to bow to their rivals

Have Mercedes finally turned the corner?

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The cost of clean energy

Review of reviews: Books

Podcasts… on masculinity, memory and a tragic murder

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

The Gallows Pole: Shane Meadows’ first foray into period drama

Exhibition of the week: China’s hidden century • British Museum, London WC2 (020-7323 8299, britishmuseum.org). Until 8 October

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

The rainbow city

Best books… Jesse Norman • The MP, government minister and author of acclaimed biographies of Edmund Burke and Adam Smith picks his favourite books. His first novel, The Winding Stair (Biteback £20), is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to subscription TV

Best properties on the market

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: arroz negro (black paella) • Cooked with prawns, squid and squid ink, this black-coloured rice dish is the taste of the sea on a plate, says Omar Allibhoy. I have particularly fond memories of it because in my family we would often eat it to celebrate religious events and other special occasions.

New cars: what the critics say

The best… Bluetooth speakers

How to… garden on a budget

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… wild orchids

This week’s dream: a cruise on the mighty Brahmaputra river

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

Tory grandee who laid the foundations for the peace process

The last of the Navy’s “human minesweepers”

Companies in the news • …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square...