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

Galloway returns

The push for a ceasefire

THE WEEK

The Week

Extremism in the UK

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Hunt’s election Budget

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 lawyer and judge, Rita Rae (Lady Rae)

Viewpoint: The case for potholes

Farewell

The plight of the River Wye • Chicken farms are wreaking havoc along one of Britain’s best-loved rivers

Agriculture’s toll on waterways

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Google’s AI blunder: redrawing history

Best articles: International

Russia takes a match to a Balkan tinderbox

What the scientists are saying…

A simulated Mars mission in Texas

The benefits of your own GP

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Sarah Everard’s murder: a damning report

Ukraine War: Europe’s “bungled” response

Black-only theatre nights: a bad idea?

Millennials: set to “inherit the Earth”

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

F1: the Horner scandal overshadows the Grand Prix

Athletics: a Cornishwoman jumps her way to glory

Britain’s new tennis star

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Lessons from Rochdale

Maurice and Maralyn

The Rejects

The Lodgers

Musical: Standing at the Sky’s Edge • Gillian Lynne Theatre, London WC2 (020-3925 2998). Until 3 August Running time: 2hrs 50mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

The Jury: Murder Trial – disquieting Channel 4 series about group dynamics

Exhibition of the week William Blake’s Universe • Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (01223-332900, fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk). Until 19 May

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

A herd of giant puppets

Best books… Nick Wallis • The journalist picks his favourites. He will be appearing at the Oxford Literary Festival on 22 March to talk about his book The Great Post Office Scandal (Bath Publishing £25); details at oxfordliteraryfestival.org

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming

Flats in impressive buildings

What the experts recommend

Recipe of the week: pistachio, lemon and coriander seed cake

New cars: what the critics say

The best… hair-removal devices

Tips… flower arranging on a budget

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… active retreats in the UK

This week’s dream: an island paradise off the west coast of Africa

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Financier and towering figure in the art world

Stand-up comic who starred in Curb Your Enthusiasm

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

On a (sausage) roll

Issue of the week: the Budget backdrop • Jeremy Hunt is playing a cautious long game – but it may not help Tory chances

The Budget’s main measures: what the experts think...