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

The Caerphilly by-election

THE WEEK

The Week

Politics

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

More doctors’ strikes

Headlight dazzle review

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 actor Lennie James

Viewpoint: The lo-fi Louvre heist

Farewell

The UN’s unhappy birthday • The United Nations, which has just turned 80, has seldom looked as precarious as it does today

The architecture of the UN

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

Is a ballroom for the White House a threat to the republic?

Best articles: International

Ireland’s new socialist president: stand by for fireworks

What the scientists are saying…

A chip to help blind people see again

Record drug deaths

Pick of the week’s Gossip

TV adverts: should they reflect the nation?

Bloody Sunday: the acquittal of Soldier F

Lucy Powell: victory for the Labour Left

Pizza Hut: the fall of a 1980s favourite

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

Football: Arsenal move further clear of rivals

F1: Norris seizes momentum at “pivotal moment”

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The question of immigration

Review of reviews: Books

Novel of the week

Theatre: Macbeth • The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon (01789-331111). Until 6 December Running time: 2hrs 35mins

Podcasts… crypto, Afrobeat, and Bill Nighy’s advice

Film & TV

Lazarus: implausible psychological thriller starring Bill Nighy

Exhibition of the week Nigerian Modernism • Tate Modern, London SE1 (020-7887 8888, tate.org.uk). Until 10 May

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

A soldier identified

Best books… Richard Holmes • The biographer chooses five works of life writing. His latest, The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief (Harper Collins £25), has been shortlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize, announced on 4 November

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming

Best properties on the market

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: salted caramel and chocolate tart

Aston Martin DBX S: “even more power and aggression”

The best… power banks

Tips… how to make the most of fallen leaves

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the best community tourism trips

This week’s dream: the dazzling coral gardens of Raja Ampat

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

The last surviving member of the 1953 Everest team

The reluctant young star of Death in Venice

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Musk’s 13-digit pay

Issue of the week: Trump’s Asian tour • Markets cheered the US president’s efforts to court Asia and his détente with China. But deep cracks remain

Mansion tax: what the experts think

Long-term gains

Commentators

City profiles

Who’s tipping what

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