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.

It wasn’t all bad

The main stories… …and how they were covered

The war in Lebanon

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Politics

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Meningitis outbreak

No to assisted dying

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 surgeon and writer Professor Stephen Westaby

Viewpoint: Office jargon

Farewell

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard • The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is both the backbone of the theocratic regime, and a state within the Iranian state

Qasem Soleimani: shadow commander

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

The Christian politician: a beacon of hope for the Democrats

Best articles: International

Hip hop in the Himalayas: Nepal’s new prime minister

What the scientists are saying…

A solution to the plastic pollution crisis

GPs don’t refuse fit notes

Pick of the week’s Gossip

The Iran war: a gift to the Kremlin?

“Anti-Muslim hostility”: defining hatred

Soaring energy prices: Starmer’s dilemma

Banknotes: no place for a badger?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Rugby union: a Six Nations for the ages

Football: Arsenal’s 16-year-old wunderkind

Winners and losers of the new F1 era

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Profit or profiteering?

Review of reviews: Books

Novel of the week

THE WEEK Bookshop

Theatre: The Holy Rosenbergs • Menier Chocolate Factory, London SE1 (020-7378 1713). Until 2 May Run time: 2hrs 20mins

The week’s other opening

Ballet: Gentleman Jack • Lyceum, Sheffield, from 31 March to 4 April, then touring (northernballet.com) Running time: 1hr 35mins

Album of the week

Film & TV

Louis Theroux – Inside the Manosphere – documentary about online misogyny

Exhibition of the week Seurat and the Sea • Courtauld Gallery, London WC2 (020-3947 7777, courtauld.ac.uk). Until 17 May

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

The fate of a cash cow

The week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

Best books… Ed Davey

Television

New to streaming

Best properties on the market

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: yukhoe (Korean beef tartare)

New cars: what the critics say

The best… adventure kit

Tips of the week… the art of small talk

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the world’s greatest libraries

This week’s dream: a journey across time in eastern China

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Classical actress who won an Olivier and a Tony

Military officer who tried to return Spain to fascism

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Airlines: war disruption fuels the hedging debate

Issue of the week: private dysfunction • The war in Iran is both masking and exacerbating growing distress in private credit markets

Making money: what the experts think

Isa bestsellers

Commentators

City profile

Who’s tipping what

“Not a spectator sport”: England’s most violent football match • Each year, the men of...