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 death of Prigozhin

Trump’s arrest

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The stolen artefacts

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Chaos at airports

Energy price cap falls

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

Viewpoint: Non-player characters

Farewell

Fifty years of hip hop • Since its birth in 1973, hip hop, or rap music, has spawned an entire culture – and conquered the world

Creation myths and origin stories

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

AI-generated books: the rising tide of junk

Best articles: International

Shooting for the Moon: India’s remarkable achievement

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Ulez expansion: fuelling anger in London

Brics: a growing challenge to the West

Nadine Dorries: an explosive resignation

Spanish football: having its MeToo moment

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

England vs. Fiji: a World Cup warm-up to forget

Athletics: Britain in among the medals

The Hundred: cricket’s 100-ball format finds its feet

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

An unwelcome invitation

The Fraud

The Stirrings

The art of the dodgy book blurb

Podcasts… culinary journeys, reunions and Allende

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

The Woman in the Wall: BBC drama about the Magdalene laundries

Exhibition of the week Michael Rakowitz • Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (0191-478 1810, baltic.art). Free entry. Until 26 May 2024

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

A dazzling Dutch still life

Best books… Louise Doughty • The bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard and Platform Seven – both adapted for major TV series – chooses her favourite books. Her new novel, A Bird in Winter (Faber £16.99), is published this week

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to subscription TV

Cottages for £850,000 or under

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: air-fryer chicken wings, with three sauces

New cars: what the critics say

The best… robot vacuums and mops

Tips… for Mediterranean plants in dry gardens

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… England’s best small theme parks

This week’s dream: a tour of Savoie’s majestic Alpine lakes

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

Leader of the brutal Wagner Group who turned on Putin

Nuclear scientist who appeared on Seven Up!

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Goldman Sachs: mutiny on Wall Street

Issue of the week: to pause or not to pause • Inflation is falling, but far from tamed. Should central banks keep raising rates?

Chinese stock markets: what the experts think

Morning routines

Commentators

City profiles

Who’s tipping what

Market summary

The Baghdad job: who was behind...