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

Lucy Letby’s conviction

Defeat for the Lionesses

THE WEEK

The Week

The class of ‘23

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

New Covid-19 variant

New train strike dates

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

Viewpoint: The Barbie effect

Farewell

The leading British chat show host of his time

Parky’s sticky moments

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Trump’s violent rhetoric: a threat to the US justice system?

Best articles: International

The death cap case: a mysterious poisoning in rural Australia

What the scientists are saying…

Horses can spot a long face

Sugar in cereals

Lucy Letby: the “nice” nurse who murdered seven babies

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Rishi Sunak: waging culture war

Bernstein’s nose: a prosthetic furore

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

The Lionesses: outplayed at the last by Spain

Johnson-Thompson’s remarkable comeback

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The lessons of the Letby case

Fire Weather

Different Times: A History of British Comedy

The Wren, The Wren

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: theatre highlights

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Henpocalypse!: bawdy BBC Two comedy set in remote Wales

Exhibition of the week When the Apple Ripens: Peter Howson at 65 • City Art Centre, Edinburgh (0131-529 3993, edinburghmuseums.org.uk/venue/city-art-centre). Until 1 October

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

Scandal at the British Museum

Best books… Sarah Raven • The celebrated gardener, cook and writer chooses her favourite books. A newly reissued edition of Sarah Raven’s Garden Cookbook (Bloomsbury £35), her collection of seasonal recipes, is out this week

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for auction

Houses for cyclists

Food & Drink

Two simple tapas recipes

New cars: what the critics say

The best… blenders for making smoothies

Tips… pitfalls to avoid with holiday money

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… UK cross-country swimming

This week’s dream: searching for “sea wolves” in Canada

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Blue-chip bosses: 16% pay rise prompts calls for reform

Issue of the week: chancing an Arm • The market debut of Britain’s chip champion is a litmus test – in more ways than one

Brics investing: what the experts think

Inflation nation

Commentators

City profiles

Who’s tipping what

Market summary

How plastics took over the modern world • Plastics have become central to almost every aspect of our lives. And they are now being found everywhere from human placentas to the deepest parts of the oceans. Can we get out of the...