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 betting scandal

A dangerous deal?

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Assange freed

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Climate protests

Junior doctors’ strike

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 boxer Anthony Joshua

Viewpoint: The “genny lec”

Farewell

Tax and spend: the trillion-pound question • What do the two main parties’ manifestos say about their tax plans? And do their sums add up?

Balancing the government books

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Heatwave: the politics of climate change

Best articles: International

Israel’s second front: will it wage “total war” in Lebanon?

What the scientists are saying…

Is vitamin D critical to longevity?

Cancer care is years behind

Pick of the week’s Gossip

The SNP: a lacklustre manifesto?

Electoral reform: has its time come?

Farage: sympathy for the Kremlin?

Cybercriminals: the attack on the NHS

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Euros Group C: England underwhelm once again

Euros Group A: yet another painful exit for Scotland

A World Cup fairytale for Afghanistan’s cricketers

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Did the West provoke Putin?

The House of Beckham

The Cleopatras

Scaffolding

Musical: Kiss Me, Kate • Barbican Theatre, London EC2 (020-7870 2500). Until 14 September Running time: 2hrs 40mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Federer: Twelve Final Days – adoring film about the tennis legend

Exhibition of the week Roger Mayne: Youth • The Courtauld Gallery, London WC2 (020-3947 7777, courtauld.ac.uk). Until 1 September

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

The case of Woman Ironing

Best books… Nina Stibbe • The writer and author of the bestselling Love, Nina chooses her favourite diaries. Her latest book Went to London, Took the Dog: The Diary of a 60-year-old Runaway (Picador £10.99) is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming TV

Splendid Georgian houses

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: braised baby gem, pancetta and peas

The best… first cars to buy second-hand

Tips… how to prepare for disasters

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the UK’s best dog-friendly beaches

This week’s dream: an epic family road trip across Namibia

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Brilliant Canadian actor who was overlooked at the Oscars

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Carlsberg/Britvic: “Danish raiders” seek juicy prize

Issue of the week: can Labour build better? • New houses and infrastructure are critical for growth. But there are entrenched obstacles

Making money: what the experts think

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