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.

It wasn’t all bad

The pound tumbles

Meloni wins power

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A PM in waiting?

Economic reforms

Covid infections rise

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

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 Jay Blades, furniture restorer and presenter of The Repair Shop

Viewpoint: Cads and bounders

Farewell

Trump’s winter White House • Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Florida estate, has been the scene of extraordinary goings-on in recent years

The mystery of the Mar-a-Lago papers

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

The billion-dollar boaster: Trump’s taste for hyperbole

Best articles: International

Killed by the police: the crime that outraged a nation

What the scientists are saying…

Mosquitoes that can’t spread malaria

A cancer-killing virus

Ukraine War: is Putin running out of options?

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Coffey’s plan: an ABCD for the NHS

Northern Ireland: a demographic shift

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: Southgate’s men remember “how to fight”

The “Mankad”: a dastardly form of dismissal?

A marathon world record in Berlin

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The cure for a sick NHS?

A Pipeline Runs Through It

Agatha Christie

The Marriage Portrait

Theatre: Eureka Day • The Old Vic, London SE1 (0344-871 7628). Until 31 October Running time: 2hrs

Podcasts… empire, Koko the gorilla, and King Charles

Film

Sidney: Apple’s tribute to the late, great Sidney Poitier

Exhibition of the week The Lindisfarne Gospels • Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle (0191-278 1611, laingartgallery.org.uk). Until 3 December

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

The See Monster

Best books… Patrice Lawrence • The award-winning author of the YA novel Orange boy picks her favourite books. The Elemental Detectives (Scholastic £7.99), her new book for younger readers, is a supernatural adventure set in London

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for sale

Best properties on the market • Victorian-era homes

What the experts recommend

Recipe of the week • The Pasta Grannies team came across this recipe while staying in a rented flat in Naples, says Vicky Bennison: the host’s mother, Anna Maria, cooked it for them, and explained that it’s a typical Sunday lunch for Neapolitans.

Well-priced wines

New cars: what the critics say

The best… women’s smartwatches

Tips of the week… simple interior design tricks

And for those who have everything…

The internet… online gardening courses

This week’s dream: a Japanese city opens to the world again

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

The novelist who resurrected Thomas Cromwell

Companies in the news …and how they...