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
Biden drops out
The Labour revolt
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The Just Stop Oil five
Spirit of the age
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Bad week for:
Damning Covid report
Tory leadership contest
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 writer David Nicholls
Viewpoint: The centre ground
Farewell
Lucy Letby: a miscarriage of justice? • Since Letby’s conviction for killing seven babies at a neonatal unit, experts have expressed grave doubts about the case
Stats and the “Texas sharpshooter”
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids
The heir apparent: Donald Trump’s pick as running mate
Alice Munro: should we still read a fallen saint?
Best articles: International
The most lavish wedding the world has ever seen
What the scientists are saying…
Gulls feast on chips but favour fish
A faster treatment for MS
CrowdStrike: the IT update that wrought global chaos
Pick of the week’s Gossip
Donald Trump: is God on his side?
Europe: the threat of US isolationism
Wit & Wisdom
Statistic of the week
Formula 1: Lando Norris takes one for the team
Cycling: the history-making Slovenian who “never lets up”
England’s “unflappable” new spin bowler
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
Are the Nimbys really to blame?
Haywire
Travelling
I Will Crash
Theatre: Hello, Dolly! • London Palladium, London W1 (020-3925 2998). Until 14 September
Albums of the week: three new releases
Film
Lady in the Lake: period murder-mystery starring Natalie Portman
Exhibition of the week Leonora Carrington: Rebel Visionary • Newlands House Gallery, Petworth (01798-651002, newlandshouse.gallery). Until 26 October
Bill Viola (1951-2024): pioneer of video art
Best books… Patrick Bishop • The bestselling historian’s latest book, Paris ’44: The Shame and the Glory (Viking £25), comes out this week. Here he describes his five favourite books about the City of Light
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
New to streaming TV
Houses for ramblers
Food & Drink
Baked ricotta with cherry tomatoes, chilli and sesame
The best… tents
Tips… to make you more productive
And for those who have everything…
Where to find… pick-your-own flower farms
This week’s dream: the beaches and mountains of Montenegro
Getting the flavour of…
Hotel of the week
Sex therapist who wanted to leave the world a better place
Comedian whose debut album sold over a million copies
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
Ryanair: a punishing, but revealing, profit warning
Issue of the week: Trump and the tech bros • Why are influential Silicon Valley billionaires throwing their weight behind the Trump campaign?
Making money: what the experts think
Eurostars
Commentators
City profiles
Shares
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