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
“A fork in the road”
The honeytrap scandal
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Sliding into oblivion?
Gender identity review
Consultants strike deal
Spirit of the age
Good week for:
Bad week for:
Poll watch
Europe at a glance
The world at a glance
People
The royal fantasy
Farewell
The decline of the local newspaper • A vital bastion of democracy is perilously close to being lost
America’s “news deserts”
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
The “meme stock” that could undermine US democracy
Best articles: International
A sea change in Turkey: the humbling of Erdogan
What the scientists are saying…
The “negative leap second” is coming
Home hit by “space junk”
Pick of the week’s Gossip
The Hate Crime Act: an “especially bad law”
Assisted dying: time to end the taboo?
Nato: an unhappy 75th birthday
The Foreign Office: still fit for purpose?
Wit & Wisdom
Statistics of the week
Football: Manchester United’s chaotic season
Cricket: a new record innings at Lord’s
The rocky path to the “doping olympics”
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
The public has a right to know
Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers
On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain
Choice
Theatre: Long Day’s Journey into Night • Wyndham’s Theatre, London WC2 (0344-482 5151). Until 8 June Running time: 3hrs
Albums of the week: three new releases
Film
This Town: BBC drama about ska, the IRA, and much besides
Exhibition of the week Perth Museum and Art Gallery • Perth, Scotland (01738-632488, perthmuseum.co.uk). Now open to the public. Free entry
Where to buy… • The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery
Looted Ukrainian art
Best books… Cath Kidston • The designer picks her favourite reads. She will be at the Festival of Gardens and Nature in County Laois, Ireland, talking about her geranium-based beauty brand C.Atherley, on 20 April (festivalofgardensandnature.com)
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
New to streaming TV
Charming island dwellings
Food & Drink
Szarlotka (Polish apple cake and a meringue crumble topping)
New cars: what the critics say
The best… air fryers
Tips… how to restore a leather handbag at home
And for those who have everything…
Where to find… the best music festivals in Europe
This week’s dream: an elegant old town in southern Cuba
Getting the flavour of…
Hotel of the week
SAS veteran at the head of a plot to kill Pablo Escobar
Novelist who had a bestseller with The L-Shaped Room
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
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Issue of the week: the stalled EV market • The industry faces a financial car crash amid China’s powerful advance
Gold and inflation: what the experts think
Triple hoorah?
Commentators
City profile
Who’s tipping...