The Week UK

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.

Tories in turmoil: can Hunt steady the ship?

It wasn’t all bad

Is Truss finished?

The fall of Kwarteng

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Drone warfare

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Bird flu prevention zone

Blood shortages

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 Maxine Peake, actor

Viewpoint: Fanatics and businessmen

Farewell

The great chess scandal • A row about cheating in elite chess has brought the game to public attention – and shone a light on its radical evolution

Chess: the first millennium-and-a-half

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Violent crime: a winning issue for the Republicans?

Best articles: International

Digging up the agonies of the past: Spain’s “memory” bill

What the scientists are saying…

Chernobyl’s frogs have turned black

Advances in scamming

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Scottish independence: is it affordable?

Just Stop Oil: a stunt too far?

The Koh-i-Noor: a 105-carat controversy

The Met: a shocking failure of discipline

Wit & Wisdom

Rugby union: why the domestic game is on “life support”

The T20 World Cup: Scotland, the giant killers

Liverpool prove they’re no “spent force”

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The jewel in the crown

Abyss

Liberation Day

Superspy Science

Theatre: Good • Harold Pinter Theatre, London SW1 (03330-096690) Running time: 2hrs 10mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

The Elon Musk Show: BBC2’s portrait of a billionaire

Exhibition of the week Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Ancient Egypt • British Museum, London WC1 (020-7323 8000, britishmuseum.org). Until 19 February

News from the art world

Best books… Don Paterson • The award-winning poet is reading at Out-Spoken, part of the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival, on 27 October (southbankcentre.co.uk); his latest collection, The Arctic (Faber £14.99) is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to subscription TV

Magnificent manor houses

What the experts say

Chicken, root vegetable and pearl barley miso soup

New cars: what the critics say

The best… cosy winter gear

Tips of the week… how to winter-proof your home

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the hottest supper clubs

Keep abreast of current affairs

Adventures in recovering wild places

A captivating journey across Laos

Vienna’s modern marvels

Troubled star who found global fame as the giant Hagrid

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Fox/News Corp: interloper threatens family reunion

Issue of the week: the return of fiscal order? • The new Chancellor must maintain an uneasy alliance with gilt investors

The world economy: what the experts think

The bond market’s greatest...