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 winter fuel row

The Grenfell inquiry

THE WEEK

The Week

The final four

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Prisoners released

Water regulations

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

Viewpoint: The rise of the backpack

Farewell

The Grenfell report • The inquiry into Britain’s worst residential fire since the Blitz has taken seven years, and uncovered an extraordinary range of failings

“Someone who gives a damn”

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Drugs and death threats: Venezuelan gangs in Colorado

Best articles: International

The left-wing populist: Germany’s new kingmaker

What the scientists are saying…

Marmosets seem to know their names

The pressure on GPs

Pick of the week’s Gossip

The Pélicot case: a horror exposed

Labour’s arms ban: “gesture politics”?

Channel migration: a “deadly impasse”

British history: should we be proud of it?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: England’s interim manager does the business

Tennis: a sickening loss for Britain’s No.1

England “shoot themselves in the foot”

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Lessons from Grenfell

A Voyage Around the Queen

Hope I Get Old Before I Die

Creation Lake

Theatre: The Real Thing • Old Vic, London SE1 (0344-871 7628). Until 26 October

Podcasts… micro-documentaries and defeated superheroes

Film

The Perfect Couple: glossy Netflix murder-mystery starring Nicole Kidman

Exhibition of the week Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look • National Gallery, London WC2 (020-7747 2885, nationalgallery.org.uk). Free entry

Where to buy…

Doig vs. the art market

Best books… Sam Leith • The journalist and author chooses his six favourite children’s books. His new book, The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading (Oneworld £30), examining classics from Aesop to Harry Potter, is out this week

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming

Impressive houses by rivers

Food & Drink

Baingan & aloo sabzi (aubergine & potato curry)

New cars: what the critics say

The best… kit for university students

Tips of the week… for aspiring entrepreneurs

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… Europe’s best sculpture parks

This week’s dream: Ravenna’s glittering treasures

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

The former TV presenter who wrote Danger Mouse

Author of a bestselling memoir about a Glasgow childhood

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

NKU once more

Issue of the week: Europe’s woes • Europe’s economy is stagnant, while the US and China motor ahead. What is to be done?

Making money: what the experts think

City jargon

Commentators

City profiles

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