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.
Sue Gray’s verdict
The global food crisis
It wasn’t all bad
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The big squeeze
Spirit of the age
Good week for:
Bad week for:
Rail strikes planned
Booster jabs this autumn
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 Paralympic champion swimmer Ellie Simmonds
Viewpoint: Intrusive staring
Farewell
The end of Roe v. Wade? • The US supreme court looks set to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling on abortion
The story of Jane Roe
IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids
Best articles: Britain
Best of the American columnists
The “great replacement”: a warrant for mass murder?
Best articles: International
Death in Nigeria: blasphemy, religion and murder
What the scientists are saying…
A black hole in the Milky Way
The global toll of pollution
Pick of the week’s Gossip
Biden: a tougher stance on Taiwan
A windfall tax: popular but misguided?
Northern Ireland: the Protocol dilemma
Monkeypox: should we be worried?
Wit & Wisdom
Statistics of the week
Football: a stunning end to the Premier League season
The world’s 100th-best golfer thwarted by final hole
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
Should the suspect be named?
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship
Chums
Bad Relations
Musical: My Fair Lady • London Coliseum WC2 (020-7845 9300). Until 27 August Running time: 3hrs
Albums of the week: three new releases
Film
The Time Traveler’s Wife: a “problematic” adaptation of the hit novel
Exhibition of the week Reframed: The Woman in the Window • Dulwich Picture Gallery, London SE21 (020-8693 5254, dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk). Until 4 September
News from the art world
Best books… Lyse Doucet • The BBC’s chief international correspondent chooses six books that have shaped her thinking about journalism and storytelling. She is writing her first book and is speaking at the Hay Festival on 3 June (hayfestival.com)
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
Coming up for auction
Colourful homes
What the experts say
Recipe of the week: pad grapao neua (stir-fried beef with holy basil)
New cars: what the critics say
The best… picnic hampers
Tips of the week… how to press flowers
And for those who have everything…
Where to find… a stay in a British castle
Three fabulous walking holidays
Enduring elegance on the Tuscan coast
A gastronomic spectacular
Prolific television writer behind Band of Gold
Innovative composer who won an Oscar for Chariots of Fire
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
On the railways: jubilation in London, and crippling strike threats
Issue of the week: the return of Davos • Does the annual gathering of the global business elite have any relevance, when globalisation is in swift retreat?
Finding shelter: what the experts think
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