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.

The assisted dying bill

The seizure of Aleppo

It wasn’t all bad

THE WEEK

The Week

Labour’s “reset”

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Louise Haigh resigns

The Al Fayed case

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 comedian and writer Mark Steel

Viewpoint: Just ignore me

Farewell

Trump and the Christian Right • Conservative Christians played an important role in Donald Trump’s re-election, and he has promised them great political influence

Cyrus or Jehu: Trump’s biblical role

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

The “landslide” that wasn’t: Trump’s mandate

Best articles: International

The presidential election that has shaken Europe

What the scientists are saying…

For birds, Britain is losing its USP

Repeat visitors to A&E

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Russia: its “shadow war” in Europe

Immigration: 2.2 million and counting

Gregg Wallace: a man out of time?

Joe Biden: a pardon for his son

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: things go from bad to worse for Manchester City

Cricket: new talents shine in Christchurch

The real star of tennis

Pick of the week’s correspondence

How to reduce our salt intake

We Who Wrestle With God

Clarissa, Muse to Power

Fathers and Fugitives

Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest • Lyttelton, National Theatre, London SE1 (020-3989 5455). Until 25 January

Podcasts… from food and spying to strange passions

Film & TV

Meet the Rees-Moggs: reality TV show about the former MP and his family

Exhibition of the week Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious • Dulwich Picture Gallery, London SE21 (020-8693 5254, dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk). Until 26 May

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

The lost Caravaggio

Best books… Lucy Hughes-Hallett • The award-winning cultural historian and novelist chooses her favourite long books. Her latest book, The Scapegoat (Fourth Estate £30), a biography of the first Duke of Buckingham, is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming

Scenic Scottish dwellings

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: teriyaki salmon skewers

The best… gifts for adults

Tips… how to get rid of mice and rats

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the best cookbooks for students

This week’s dream: going back in time in Buenos Aires

Getting the flavour of…

Rental of the week

The grande dame of the blockbuster novel

Filmmaker who hit the big time with Airplane!

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Aviva/Direct Line: the Dame and the Winslow boy

Issue of the week: EU economic strife • The looming threat of “Le Shutdown” in France has added to a growing sense of crisis in the bloc

Making money: what the experts think

More Christmas books

Commentators

City profiles

Shares

Courts in crisis: backlogs, exhausted barristers and failed victims • Evidence lost, prisoners...