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
Labour’s pay deals
Humiliation for Putin
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The prisons crisis
Spirit of the age
Good week for:
Bad week for:
A-level results
Extreme misogyny
Poll watch
Europe at a glance
The world at a glance
People
Viewpoint: Outstaying the welcome
Farewell
The voice of Britain’s far-right • Tommy Robinson is the best-known figure on the UK’s extreme-right, and has been accused of playing a part in inciting the recent riots
Robinson’s legal woes
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
Trump: flustered by the Harris surge
The Nord Stream mystery: finally solved?
The appalling reality of the world’s forgotten war
Pick of the week’s Gossip
Mpox: a public health emergency
Sue Gray: a power struggle at No. 10?
Stonehenge: a transformative discovery
Raygun: heir to Eddie the Eagle?
Wit & Wisdom
Statistics of the week
Football: Boehly’s £1bn Chelsea underwhelm again
Cricket: a thrilling end to a testing year for the Hundred
Is it time for tennis to embrace VAR?
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
The UK-EU divorce
Hitler’s People
Home Is Where We Start
Banal Nightmare
Edinburgh Festival hits soon heading elsewhere
Albums of the week: three new releases
Film
Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams – On Tour: deeply moving television
Exhibition of the week Lowry and the Sea • Granary Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland (01289-330999). Until 13 October. Free entry
What to see in Edinburgh
Best books… Caroline Lucas • The former MP and Green Party leader picks her favourites. She will be talking about her new book, Another England (Hutchinson Heinemann £22), at the Queen’s Park Book Festival on 31 August (queensparkbookfestival.co.uk)
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
New to streaming
Flats in historic buildings
Food & Drink
Recipe of the week: pork and prawn wontons (hoành thánh)
New cars: what the critics say
The best… car vacuums
Tips… to help teens eat less ultra-processed food
And for those who have everything…
Where to find… the best AI interior design platforms
This week’s dream: a quirky Californian wine region
Getting the flavour of…
Hotel of the week
Actor dubbed “the most handsome man in the world”
Pioneering chief executive of YouTube
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
Darktrace: double tragedy casts dark cloud
Issue of the week: high stakes at Jackson Hole • The US Fed is at a policy crossroads and must tread carefully to avoid a rocky denouement
Making money: what the experts think
Carrying on
Commentators
City profile
Shares
How to negotiate with a cybercriminal • When companies are targeted by gangs of hackers, they often panic. But Nick Shah, a professional ransomware negotiator, is there to help. Amanda Chicago Lewis...