The Week UK

The best of the media in one magazine. Each issue stitches together news and views from more than 200 global news sources into an utterly enjoyable, informative read.

Labour’s first 100 days

Badenoch vs. Jenrick

It wasn’t all bad

THE WEEK

The Week

An impossible task?

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Novichok inquiry

High-speed proposal

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

Viewpoint: A nametag on Everest

Farewell

Did the Covid virus leak from a lab? • Once dismissed as a conspiracy theory, the idea that Covid-19 originated in a virology lab in Wuhan now has many adherents

China and the blame game

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

A storm of lies: the politics of hurricane season

Best articles: International

Exodus: the desperate rush to get out of Lebanon

What the scientists are saying…

The greening of Antarctica

Rolling out the “skinny jab”

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Reading: is the habit dying out?

Workers’ rights: a welcome reform?

The Nobel Prize: a triumph for AI

Wimbledon’s line judges: the end of an era

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: England’s “exhilarating” new manager

Tennis: farewell to a Spanish master

England send records tumbling in Multan

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Whose life is it anyway?

Unleashed

A Woman Like Me

Annihilation

Theatre: The Other Place • Lyttelton, National Theatre, London SE1 (020-3989 5455). Until 9 November

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Rivals: Jilly Cooper’s bestselling novel gets a rollicking adaptation

Exhibition of the week Monet and London: Views of the Thames • The Courtauld Gallery, London WC2 (020-3947 7777, courtauld.ac.uk). Until 19 January

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

Jitters in the London art market

Best books… Sarah Rainsford • The BBC’s Eastern Europe correspondent on books that explain Putin’s Russia. She’ll discuss her book Goodbye to Russia (Bloomsbury £22) at the Stratford Literary Festival on 27 October (stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk)

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming

20th century gems

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: tartiflette

New cars: what the critics say

The best… portable radios

Tips of the week… surprising beauty hacks

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the UK’s best city walking tours

This week’s dream: Grenada’s luxurious new resorts

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Charismatic politician who nearly broke up the Union

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Spitting fury

Issue of the week: Labour’s investment summit • The Government sought to woo investors and frame an industrial policy. Did it succeed?

Making money: what the experts think

Favourite ETFs • Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are useful for exposure to specific sectors or indices, says The Motley Fool. Here, “five Fools” outline their faves:

Commentators

City profiles

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The beach in Ghana where the UK’s old clothes end up • There are enough garments in the world to dress the next six generations. Yet the amount of clothing being...