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

Xi in Washington

THE WEEK

The week

The Man City verdict

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Vocational GCSEs

Heathrow runway delay

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 writer Matt Haig

Viewpoint: Labrador politics

Farewell

The welfare bill • Is spending on benefits really out of control? What exactly do we spend on welfare, and who receives it?

Perverse incentives

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

Diesel price hikes: a “missile” heading for Trump voters

Best articles: International

The political walking dead: Germany’s zombie chancellor

Separate the news from the nonsense

What the scientists are saying…

Tiger cat identified in Bolivia

Martha’s Rule extended

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Drumcree: old wounds reopened

Russian disinformation: a new crackdown

The Chagos deal: dead in the water?

Reform UK: back to earth with a bump

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: Tuchel’s team blow another second-half lead

Cricket: England discover “strength in depth”

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The trouble with the triple lock

Review of reviews: Books

The Booker Prize: “Are men OK?”

THE WEEK Bookshop

Theatre: Table 17 • Kiln Theatre, London NW6 (020-7328 1000). Until 24 October Running time: 1hr 35mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film & TV

70 Up: the landmark documentary series comes to an end

The week’s big opening The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art • Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California (lucasmuseum.org). Now open to the public

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

Caravaggio gets a drenching

The week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

Best books… Ralph Steadman

Television

Coming up for sale

Best properties on the market

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week

Wine choice

New cars: what the critics say

The best… rice cookers

Tips of the week… to stop nuisance calls and texts

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… greener laundry detergent

This week’s dream: the unsung glories of Brazil’s biggest city

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Fleet Street editor and chronicler of the Swinging Sixties

Producer responsible for the “definitive” Sherlock Holmes

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Monzo/Nubank: Brazilian bid for fintech crown jewel

Seven days in the Square Mile

Issue of the week: the return of Help to Buy • Your First Home is a reheated version of an old Tory policy. Will builders be the main beneficiaries?

Oil and bonds: what the experts think

Warring siblings

Commentators

City profiles

Who’s tipping what

No turning back: the final climb of a superstar mountaineer • Nirmal “Nims” Purja, who had climbed all 14 of the world’s peaks higher than 8,000m, was caught in an avalanche this summer with nine other climbers on Pakistan’s Broad...