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
A new leader for Scotland
France in turmoil
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The Week
The case against Ofsted
Spirit of the age
Good week for:
Bad week for:
Poole harbour leak
Junior doctors’ strike
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 comedian and television presenter Dara Ó Briain
Viewpoint: Posthumous censorship
Farewell
The Sheffield chainsaw massacre • For five years, Sheffield’s council fought a battle with campaigners over its plans to cut down trees on the city’s streets
Devastation on Armada Way
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
The ex-president, the porn star and the hush money
Mass protests in Israel: Netanyahu backs down
Taking on the army: the fightback by Pakistan’s “messiah”
What the scientists are saying…
A new clue about Covid’s origins
GE crops become legal
The Partygate hearing: has “Boris’s bubble” burst?
Pick of the week’s Gossip
Trans athletes: a return to common sense?
Laughing gas: a new crackdown
Wit & Wisdom
Statistics of the week
Football: England begin to look like Euros favourites
Rowing: an audacious Boat Race victory for Cambridge
Commentary box
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
Grading Ofsted
The Big Con
Don’t Think, Dear
To Battersea Park
Podcasts: on siblings, war and an unsolved murder
Albums of the week: three new releases
Film
Great Expectations: BBC One’s new adaptation of the Dickens classic
Exhibition of the week After Impressionism • National Gallery, London WC2 (020-7747 2885, nationalgallery.org.uk). Until 13 August
Where to buy… • The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery
The hospital with two Hogarths
Best books… Henry Dimbleby • The entrepreneur, cookery writer and former government food czar chooses five books for lay readers about complex systems. His new book, Ravenous: How to Get Ourselves and Our Planet Into Shape (Profile £16.99) is out now
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
New to subscription TV
Scenic seaside properties
Food & Drink
Recipe of the week • There is something special about a prawn pancake – and this one is an unusual marriage of Korean and Indian traditions, says Sabrina Gidda. I like to eat mine drizzled with some crispy garlic oil.
Wine choice
New cars: what the critics say
The best… microwaves
Tips of the week… how to make a cough remedy
And for those who have everything…
Where to find… UK cold-weather camping
This week’s dream: the elemental beauty of the Outer Banks
Hotel of the week
Getting the flavour of…
Last-minute offers from top travel companies
Writer who invented the genre of “confessional biography”
The dynamic businesswoman behind Ann Summers
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square...