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.

It wasn’t all bad

Climate diplomacy

A looming recession

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Hancock in the jungle

Spirit of the age

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 Richard E. Grant, actor

Viewpoint: The town square

Farewell

Old King Tut • One hundred years ago this month, Tutankhamun’s tomb was opened for the first time in three millennia

The curse of the pharaohs

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Affirmative action: Harvard University in the firing line

The Republican Party: guilty of inciting violence?

Best articles: International

Israel lurches to the right: Netanyahu’s spectacular return

What the scientists are saying…

The world’s disappearing glaciers

Needless heart deaths

Albanian migration: the exodus from a “failed state”

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Manchester bombing: a litany of failures

Regional accents: an insidious prejudice

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Cricket: Stokes’s level head rescues England

Rugby: a dispiriting loss for Eddie Jones’s team

Football: the upward flight of the Magpies

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

How to fix our health system

The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

The Diaries of Henry “Chips” Channon: Vol. 3

Darling

Musical: Fisherman’s Friends • Leeds Grand Theatre (fishermanonstage.com). Until 19 November, then on tour Running time: 2hrs 30mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

The Crown: the “sprawling, soapy epic” returns with a new cast

Exhibition of the week The Horror Show! • Somerset House, London WC2 (020-7845 4600, somersethouse.org.uk). Until 19 February

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

Vermeer or not Vermeer?

Best books… Kate Bingham • The former chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce picks her favourite books. Her own book, The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain (Oneworld £18.99), written with Tim Hames, is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to subscription TV

Glorious properties in Wales

What the experts recommend

Recipe of the week

Magnums

New cars: what the critics say

The best… wellies

Tips of the week… travel hacks for flying

And for those who have everything…

Apps… for weight loss

This week’s dream: the island gem beloved by Marilyn Monroe

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

Tycoon who bought Land’s End and John O’Groats

The nurse who was Anne Frank’s best friend

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

On the mend

Issue of the week: Musk’s Waterloo? • Elon Musk could yet trounce the pessimists, but his explosive start at Twitter hasn’t inspired confidence

Investing in Brazil: what the experts think

Crypto...