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 fall of Humza Yousaf
The asylum spat
THE WEEK
The Week
Labour’s railway plan
Spirit of the age
Good week for:
Bad week for:
Border checks begin
The King resumes duties
Poll watch
Europe at a glance
The world at a glance
People
Viewpoint: Dishing out the honours
Farewell
The right to buy • A row over Angela Rayner’s tax bill has stirred up questions about the “right to buy” council houses
A perverse subsidy?
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
Campus protests: elite college students take on the police
Best articles: International
French schools and the scourge of teenage violence
What the scientists are saying…
Mirrors in space to boost solar farms
Middle-class smokers
Pick of the week’s Gossip
Overtourism: Venice takes a stand
Defence spending: UK on “a war footing”
Weinstein’s appeal: a blow to #MeToo
Runaway horses: drama in central London
Wit & Wisdom
Statistics of the week
Football: Liverpool’s new coach has big shoes to fill
Rugby union: the Red Roses triumph in Six Nations epic
Commentary box
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
Student protesters pick their battles
The Wide Wide Sea
Nostalgia
You Are Here
Theatre: Sunset Song • Dundee Rep (01382-223530). Until 4 May, then tours Scotland until 8 June Running time: 2hrs 40mins
Podcasts… on WhatsApp, King Boris III, and marriage
Film
Baby Reindeer: disturbing Netflix drama about stalking
Exhibition of the week Venice Biennale 2024 • Various locations, Venice, Italy (labiennale.org). Until 24 November
News from the art world
Best books… Olivia Laing • The author of The Lonely City: Adventure in the Art of Being Alone picks her favourite books. Her latest, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise (Picador £20), is out this week
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
New to streaming TV
Houses with enchanting gardens
Food & Drink
Recipe of the week: almond marmalade cake
New cars: what the critics say
The best… lawnmowers
Tips… on parenting grown-up children
And for those who have everything…
Where to find… the best UK hotels with pools
This week’s dream: on the trail of India’s wild lions
Getting the flavour of…
Hotel of the week
Labour MP who campaigned tirelessly for welfare reform
US journalist held hostage in Lebanon for seven years
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
Darktrace: another tech defector heads into the shadows
Issue of the week: the battle for Anglo American’s copper • “The Big Australian”, BHP, is gunning to dominate a vital commodity
Investing in India: what the experts think
Pet sounds
Commentators
City profiles
Who’s tipping what
Market summary
The Columbine effect: the legacy of a high-school massacre • Dave Cullen...