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

Starmer’s hard truths

Clashes in the Middle East

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Can Harris do it?

GCSE results

Mental health helpline

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

Harrow in China

Farewell

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Harris’s economic agenda: a hard turn to the left?

Rape and murder in Kolkata: a case that has outraged India

The battle over Serbia’s “white gold”

What the scientists are saying…

Drugs polluting national park rivers

Perils of the ham sandwich

Tragedy at sea: the sinking of a superyacht

Gossip

Teenagers: should we let them roam?

New drug rejected: is Nice being nasty?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

F1: Lando Norris beats Max Verstappen in his backyard

Cricket: England grind their way to victory over Sri Lanka

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The Allsopp parenting model

Review of reviews: Books

Theatre: Shifters • Duke of York’s Theatre, London WC2 (0844 871 7615). Until 12 October Running time: 1hr 40mins

The week’s other opening

Podcast… muscle men, action tales, and internet culture

Film

Sherwood: James Graham’s crime drama returns for a second series

Exhibition of the week Mohammed Sami: After the Storm • Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (01993-810530, blenheimpalace.com). Until 6 October

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

Chronicler of the North

Best books… Horatio Clare • The writer and broadcaster chooses five of his favourites. His new book, Your Journey, Your Way (Penguin £18.99) – a guide to the mental health system, based on the author’s own experiences – is out this week

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming TV

Charming Spanish houses around £1m

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: Tuscan bean soup • This traditional Italian soup is known as ribollita, says Matt Tebbutt. It’s the perfect way to warm up as the nights start to get colder – comfort food at its best.

New cars: what the critics say

The best… pizza ovens

Tips… to mend, reuse or dispose of everyday stuff

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the best vintage clothes shops

This week’s dream: the wild beauty of southeast Sri Lanka

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Tech entrepreneur who took on the US justice system

Bestselling cookery writer and legend of nouvelle cuisine

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Fortescue/BHP/Rio Tinto/Vale: the great iron ore bust

Issue of the week: Labour and business • The Government’s “new deal” is bamboozling companies, but tax changes are the real economic threat

Wealth tax contenders: the experts’ view

Celebrity art • Laura Freeman of The Times runs us through some renowned...