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

Sunak strikes a deal

The SNP race begins

THE WEEK

The Week

Starmer’s “missions”

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Omagh police shooting

Marriage age raised

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 artist Sonia Boyce

Viewpoint: Peak identity politics

Farewell

The Holodomor: death by hunger • Ukraine is currently commemorating a second significant anniversary – of the 1932-33 Soviet famine

Stalin’s useful idiots

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Caught in a web of lies: the Fox Corporation at bay

Best articles: International

Iran and the bomb: unleashing a “nuclear arms race”?

What the scientists are saying…

“Forever chemicals” found in animals

CBD in major new trial

War in Ukraine: is China poised to intervene?

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Shamima Begum: Britain’s responsibility?

The salad crisis: why the veg ran short

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Cricket: England denied in “one of the greatest” ever Tests

Rugby union: a “grinding” victory for England in Cardiff

Murray’s “miracle” wins in Doha

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Does Dahl need updating?

Two Sisters

Follow the Money

Cursed Bread

Musical: Blaze of Glory! • Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, then touring until 20 May (wno.org.uk) Running time: 2hrs 10mins

Podcasts… on false identities, the natural world and space

Film

Fleishman Is in Trouble: midlife burnout on the Upper East Side

Exhibition of the week David Hockney • The Lightroom, London N1 (0300-303 4216, lightroom.uk). Until 4 June

Eugène Leroy • The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery

The mobile museum

Best books… Peter Frankopan • The historian and bestselling author picks his favourite books about the relationship between humanity and nature. His new book, The Earth Transformed: An Untold History (Bloomsbury £30), is published this week

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for sale

Fine listed properties

What the experts say

Gigantes (white butter beans) with spinach and chard

New cars: what the critics say

The best… coffee machines

Tips of the week… recycling more waste

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… England’s most scenic bus routes

This week’s dream: a home-stay tour of beautiful Bangladesh

Updown Deal, Kent

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

Historian known for his lucid and fair-minded biographies

Resistance fighter who was immortalised by Robert Capa

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Goldman Sachs: a day of reckoning for Wall Street’s “damp squib”

Issue of the week: The Windsor Framework and business • The opportunity to...