The Week UK

The best of the media in one magazine. Each issue stitches together news and views from more than 200 global news sources into an utterly enjoyable, informative read.

It wasn’t all bad

The main stories… …and how they were covered

Iran counts the cost

THE WEEK

The Week

Politics

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Channel crossings record

Chester hospital arrests

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 theatre director Sir Gregory Doran

Viewpoint: Boasting

Farewell

China’s super-embassy • The People’s Republic wants to build a massive new embassy in central London, and a lot of people aren’t happy about it

Espionage and the anti-China hawks

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

The mayor apparent: a class warrior triumphs in New York

Best articles: International

Riots in Kenya: Gen Z rises up against the ruling elite

What the scientists are saying…

Orcas fashion their own body brushes

“Skinny jab” rollout

Starmer’s first year: a catalogue of errors

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Nato: how they kept “Daddy” happy

Jeff in Venice: a “triumph of tackiness”?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

Formula 1: Norris reignites his title challenge

Tennis: Wimbledon dispenses with its line judges

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The BBC: a licence to offend?

Review of reviews: Books

Musical: Hercules • Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London WC2 (020-3925 2998). Until 28 March 2026 Running time: 2hrs 10mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film & TV

Grenfell: Uncovered – a searing account of an avoidable tragedy

Exhibition of the week Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting • National Portrait Gallery, London WC2 (020-7306 0055, npg.org.uk). Until 7 September

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

A Christ “bigger than Rio’s”

Best books… Shami Chakrabarti • The politician, lawyer and human rights activist chooses her favourite polemics. Her most recent book, Human Rights: The Case for the Defence (Penguin £10.99) is out now in paperback

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming TV

Best properties on the market

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: ajo blanco with roasted grapes

New cars: what the critics say

The best… tennis accessories

Tips of the week… how to thwart bicycle thieves

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… free secret gardens in Europe

This week’s dream: a journey into the deep past on beautiful Arran

Getting the flavour of…

Rental of the week

New Urbanist architect who designed Poundbury

TV presenter known as the Queen of Clean

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Prax/ABF/Petroineos: the politics of industrial closures

Issue of the week: Isa reform • Changing the rules might benefit savers and the economy. But it looks like a tax raid

First-half scores: what the experts think

More summer books

Commentators

City profile

Who’s tipping what

“Are the bricks evil?”: the fairy-tale village built for the SS • An idyllic neighbourhood on...