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

The Gaza hostage truce

Record immigration

THE WEEK

The Week

“Live now, pay later”

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Antisemitism march

Swine flu detected

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 Dr Nicola Fox, the head of science at Nasa

Viewpoint: The missing Left

Farewell

Shakespeare’s First Folio • The first collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays was published in London 400 years ago

Compositor E and the Hinman collator

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

The online X factor: promoting antisemitism?

Best articles: International

“Mozart” causes a political earthquake in the Netherlands

What the scientists are saying…

We’re heading to well beyond 1.5°C

Rise in eating disorders

Pick of the week’s Gossip

OpenAI: can it serve humanity?

Worklessness: a national “scandal”

Dublin riots: a blow to Ireland’s reputation

Farage in the jungle: next stop Westminster?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

The irrepressible manager with a remarkable footballing brain

Tennis: how Jannik Sinner crashed the “top table”

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The vision of a two-state solution

Watford Forever

Toxic

Good Material

Musical: The Witches • Olivier, National Theatre, London SE1 (020-3989 5455). Until 27 January Running time: 2hrs 45mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Archie: Jason Isaacs stars in ITVX’s biopic of Cary Grant

Exhibition of the week Blavatnik Galleries • Imperial War Museum, London SE1 (020-7416 5000, iwm.org.uk). Now open (free entry)

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

An Afghan memorial

Best books… Alison Balsom • The trumpet virtuoso picks her favourite books. She is taking part in Follow the Stars – Macmillan Carols at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford on 8 December (followthestars-macmillancarols.com)

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming TV

Stunning houses for winter sun

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: roast garlic mushrooms with parsley and eggs

The best… adult stocking fillers

Tips… the new rules of stretching

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… festive journeys by steam train

This week’s dream: a Neolithic marvel in southeast Turkey

Holiday let of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

Acclaimed character actor whose family was hit by tragedy

Drama teacher who transformed thousands of lives

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Shein: the biggest Wall Street float of 2024?

Issue of the week: the drive to turbocharge investment • Wooing foreigners and “Telling Sid” won’t solve the timidity of our own...