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.

The Labour conference

A new Israeli war?

It wasn’t all bad

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Al Fayed, the predator

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Nurses reject deal

Growth forecast boost

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 an extended edition of playwright James Graham’s episode

Viewpoint: Oxford blues

Farewell

The “Party of God” • Israel has turned its fire on Hezbollah, the enemy across its northern border in Lebanon that it has been fighting for 40 years

Hezbollah’s “state within a state”

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Hyperbole and hatred: can heated rhetoric kill?

Best articles: International

Politicising the judiciary: Mexico’s radical reform

What the scientists are saying…

The lizards with scuba-like kit

Superbug warning

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Starmer’s freebies: a belated U-turn

Working from home: should it be a right?

The pager attacks: a coup for Mossad?

Tupperware: how its fate was sealed

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Boxing: a “new king of Wembley” is crowned

F1: Norris heaps more pressure on Verstappen

Another agonising near-miss for Rory McIlroy

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The PM and freebies

The Siege

The Haunted Wood

What a Way to Go

Theatre: Waiting for Godot • Theatre Royal Haymarket, London SW1 (020-7930 8800). Until 14 December

Podcasts… harrowing true-life cases, and a book club

Film

A Very Royal Scandal: another drama about the Newsnight interview

Exhibition of the week Michael Craig-Martin • Royal Academy, London W1 (020-7300 8090, royalacademy.org.uk). Until 10 December

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

A “sepulchre of the human face”

Best books… Richard Ayoade • The writer/comedian picks his favourites. He will talk about his The Fairy Tale Fan Club (Walker £12.99) and The Unfinished Harauld Hughes (Faber £16.99) at Cheltenham Literature Festival (5 Oct); cheltenhamfestivals.org

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for auction

Houses on the Scottish and Welsh borders

Food & Drink

Giant thin and crispy brown butter chocolate chip cookies

New cars: what the critics say

The best… ceramic heaters

Tips of the week… how to stop smelly feet

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the best flea markets in Europe

This week’s dream: the jewel of Colombia’s Caribbean coast

Getting the flavour of…

Rental of the week

Film producer known for his work with David Lean

Jackson brother who mentored his own sons’ band

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Post Office: still-troubled horizons

Issue of the week: China’s stimulus blitz • Economic alarm is growing in Beijing amid...