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

Israel under pressure

The verdict on Cop28

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The Week

The Mone affair

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Drakeford resigns

Potential by-election

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Impeaching the president: a Republican “fishing expedition”

Best articles: International

Rejoicing in Brussels: the return of Donald Tusk

What the scientists are saying…

Full speed ahead for flying taxi

Tropical diseases are coming

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Health, harms and homeopathy

People of the year • It was the year Prince Harry released a bestselling memoir, Nicola Sturgeon resigned, King Charles III was crowned and Taylor Swift became a billionaire. Here we take a look at some of the people who made the headlines in 2023

It must be true… the best tabloid stories of 2023

Football: Jude Bellingham comes of age • From a determined heptathlete to a theatrical cricketer, we look back on three of the year’s most impressive performers

Athletics: Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s remarkable comeback

Cricket: Stuart Broad’s fairy-tale farewell

The Christmas quiz • Test your grasp of current affairs and general knowledge with our quiz

Theatre: Stranger Things: The First Shadow • Phoenix Theatre, London WC2 (thephoenixtheatre.co.uk) Running time: 3hrs 20mins

Ballet: Cinders! • Theatre Royal, Glasgow, until 31 December, then on tour (scottishballet.co.uk) Running time: 2hrs

Film

The Crown: the once-great British series bows out

Best books… Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook • The historians and presenters of hit podcast series The Rest Is History choose their favourites. Their new book, The Rest Is History: History’s Most Curious Questions Answered (Bloomsbury £18.99), is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching over Christmas

How do you fit 52 gifts in one stocking?

Films of the year • 2023 was the year that was dominated by the twin release of Barbie and Oppenheimer. Here we look at some of the other films that impressed the critics this year, from Tár and Killers of the Flower Moon to British indies Scrapper and Blue Jean

Review of reviews: some of the best TV of 2023 • Apart from Succession and David Attenborough, was there anything good on telly this year?

A round-up of works of art… …that made the news in 2023

Albums of the year

Properties of the year • A look at some of the most outstanding properties of the year

Spiced clementine cake • This gently spiced cake is a great alternative to traditional Christmas cake, say Tim Wilson and Rebecca Seal. Because it is drizzled with fragrant clementine syrup, it keeps well, and it happens to be gluten- and dairy-free. Use organic clementines, if you can find them. You could get ahead by baking it two or three days before it’s needed, or bake and freeze.

The best champagnes and other festive fizz

The best… stylish ski kit

Tips… how to get value for money at a restaurant

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… gifts that don’t need wrapping

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