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.
Johnson clings on
Ukraine’s bloody stalemate
It wasn’t all bad
THE WEEK
The Week
Holiday hell
Spirit of the age
Good week for:
Bad week for:
Train strikes ahead
Rwanda refugee flight
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 writer and broadcaster Jon Ronson
Press bias
Farewell
Putin’s filtration camps • In the 20% of Ukraine that Russia now occupies, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are being interned and deported
Fil’tratsiia: a dark history
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
School shootings: what can be done to stop them?
Best articles: International
“Death to Khamenei”: the protests convulsing Iran
What the scientists are saying…
Uncovering the Amazon’s lost cities
Record long Covid rates
The Queen: “an anchor of continuity in a sea of change”
Pick of the week’s Gossip
Depp vs. Heard: a troubling verdict?
Imperial units: do we want them back?
Wit & Wisdom
Statistics of the week
Cricket: the Stokes era gets off to a “perfect” start
Tennis: is the end drawing near for the “king of clay”?
Inspirational Bale leads Wales to Qatar
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
Class and the monarchy
When the Dust Settles
Adventurer
Nonfiction: A Novel
Podcasts… reality TV shows and royal interviews
Albums of the week: three new releases
Film
Borgen: the return of Birgitte Nyborg
Exhibition of the week Edvard Munch: Masterpieces from Bergen • The Courtauld Gallery, London WC2 (020-3947 7711, courtauld.ac.uk). Until 4 September
Where to buy… • The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery
A royal “tree of trees”
Best books… Benjamin Markovits • The British-American novelist – a former winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize – chooses his five favourite books. His latest novel, The Sidekick, is published by Faber priced £19
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
Coming up for sale
Georgian gems
What the experts say
Recipe of the week: campfire pork and beans
New cars: what the critics say
The best… drills
Tips of the week… how to be an eco-gardener
And for those who have everything…
Apps… for forecasting the weather
This week’s dream: remembering Shackleton on South Georgia
Hotel of the week
Getting the flavour of…
Last-minute offers from top travel companies
Unassuming keyboardist who co-founded Depeche Mode
The accountant who created a network of mountain bothies
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
Musk/Twitter/Tesla: a bad case of cold feet
Issue of the week: Sheryl Sandberg’s mixed legacy • The most important woman in tech is leaving Meta. Will she be missed?
The political pound: what the experts...