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 fall of Humza Yousaf

The asylum spat

THE WEEK

The Week

Labour’s railway plan

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Border checks begin

The King resumes duties

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

Viewpoint: Dishing out the honours

Farewell

The right to buy • A row over Angela Rayner’s tax bill has stirred up questions about the “right to buy” council houses

A perverse subsidy?

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Campus protests: elite college students take on the police

Best articles: International

French schools and the scourge of teenage violence

What the scientists are saying…

Mirrors in space to boost solar farms

Middle-class smokers

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Overtourism: Venice takes a stand

Defence spending: UK on “a war footing”

Weinstein’s appeal: a blow to #MeToo

Runaway horses: drama in central London

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: Liverpool’s new coach has big shoes to fill

Rugby union: the Red Roses triumph in Six Nations epic

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Student protesters pick their battles

The Wide Wide Sea

Nostalgia

You Are Here

Theatre: Sunset Song • Dundee Rep (01382-223530). Until 4 May, then tours Scotland until 8 June Running time: 2hrs 40mins

Podcasts… on WhatsApp, King Boris III, and marriage

Film

Baby Reindeer: disturbing Netflix drama about stalking

Exhibition of the week Venice Biennale 2024 • Various locations, Venice, Italy (labiennale.org). Until 24 November

News from the art world

Best books… Olivia Laing • The author of The Lonely City: Adventure in the Art of Being Alone picks her favourite books. Her latest, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise (Picador £20), is out this week

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming TV

Houses with enchanting gardens

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: almond marmalade cake

New cars: what the critics say

The best… lawnmowers

Tips… on parenting grown-up children

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the best UK hotels with pools

This week’s dream: on the trail of India’s wild lions

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Labour MP who campaigned tirelessly for welfare reform

US journalist held hostage in Lebanon for seven years

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Darktrace: another tech defector heads into the shadows

Issue of the week: the battle for Anglo American’s copper • “The Big Australian”, BHP, is gunning to dominate a vital commodity

Investing in India: what the experts think

Pet sounds

Commentators

City profiles

Who’s tipping what

Market summary

The Columbine effect: the legacy of a high-school massacre • Dave Cullen...