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 climate summit

Israel’s southern offensive

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Rwanda revisited

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Migration measures

Doctors to strike again

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 performance artist Marina Abramović

Viewpoint: Fawning over the posh

Farewell

The creation of modern Israel • In the first of two briefings, we examine the roots of the bitterly contested Israel-Palestine conflict

Zionism: a colonial project?

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

Nikki Haley: can she really challenge Trump?

Best articles: International

Death in rural France: a murder that inflamed a nation

What the scientists are saying…

An ancient yew forest in the Fens

Sepsis linked to antibiotics

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Alistair Darling: tributes to a decent man

The Elgin Marbles: time to send them back?

Keir Starmer: praise for the Iron Lady

The “royal racists” row: a tawdry PR stunt?

Wit & Wisdom

Football: one man’s “transformative” impact on Spurs

Rugby union: England’s captain stands down

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The future of the Falklands

Review of reviews: Books

Musical: Oliver! • Quarry, Leeds Playhouse (0113-213 7700). Until 27 January

Podcasts… showbiz insights and a classy true-crime series

Film

John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial

Exhibition of the week Women in Revolt! • Tate Britain, London SW1 (020-7887 8888; tate.org.uk). Until 7 April, then touring to Edinburgh and Manchester

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

The lost Botticelli

Best books… Ken Follett • The author – whose historical novels have sold more than 192 million copies worldwide – picks his favourite books. His new novel, The Armour of Light (Macmillan £25), the latest in his Kingsbridge series, is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming

Best properties on the market • Castles, turrets and crenellations

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week • This punch, which has been in my arsenal for donkey’s years, is great for a festive party, says Oisín Davis. You just can’t go wrong with these classic Irish flavours all bundled together and bound with dry cider and whiskey.

Warming drinks

Consumer

This week’s dream: the wild magic of the Sea Islands

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

Globetrotting diplomat who won the Nobel Peace Prize

The unruly former punk with a literary soul

Politician and activist who was married to Neil Kinnock

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

UK retail: Christmas on ice

Seven days in the Square Mile

Issue of the week: turmoil at the Telegraph • The tortuous battle for the...