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 Labour manifesto

Farage’s “contract”

THE WEEK

The Week

The Tory doom-mongers

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

No Lawrence prosecution

E. coli outbreak

Poll watch

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 journalist and news presenter Clive Myrie

Viewpoint: Junk info

Farewell

Europe’s drug gangs • The illegal narcotics trade is fuelling a surge in gang violence across the continent

The threat from fentanyl

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Hunter Biden’s conviction: a victory for the rule of law?

Congestion charging in NYC: a dream that died

The rising “superstar” of the French hard-right

Balloon wars: soaring tensions in the Koreas

What the scientists are saying…

Elephants may name their young

A scan to predict dementia

Pick of the week’s Gossip

The Greens: a new force on the Left

Joe Biden: too frail for office?

VAT on private schools: a spiteful policy?

The runaway cow: misadventure in Staines

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Euros: England’s “nervy” opening win

Golf: McIlroy unravels at the US Open

A historic day for British tennis

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Reading Labour’s manifesto

Operation Biting

Battle for the Bird

Godwin

Opera: The Merry Widow • Glyndebourne, Lewes, East Sussex (01273-812321). Until 28 July

Podcasts… from museum mysteries to Mosley’s health tips

Film

Exhibition of the week Summer Exhibition • Royal Academy, London W1 (020-7300 8090, royalacademy.org.uk). Until 18 August

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

Taking on the machines

Best books… Adrian Edmondson • The actor, comedian and author chooses his five favourite novels. His latest book, Berserker!: An Autobiography (Pan £10.99), is out now in paperback

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming TV

Houses in conservation areas

Food & Drink

Freekeh with squash, beetroot and pomegranate

New cars: what the critics say

The best… new-generation hair dryers

Tips… dealing with Japanese knotweed

And for those who have everything…

Apps… parental control apps for Android and iOS

This week’s dream: a restorative retreat in northern Norway

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

French singer-songwriter and reluctant fashion muse

Psychologist who was a voice for the “disappeared”

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Tesla: Musk claims pay deal victory

Issue of the week: London resurgent? • After 30 years of hurt, there are signs that stock market strength may be coming home

China: time to venture back?

A penny for your ethics

Commentators

City profiles

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