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.

The Wagner mutiny: will Putin survive?

It wasn’t all bad

Prigozhin’s fall

An opportunity for Kyiv

THE WEEK

The Week

The Bank’s bitter pill

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

New Lawrence suspect

NHS strikes

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 Kate Mosse

Viewpoint: Autocratic competence

Farewell

How Barbie conquered the world • The first major feature film about the world’s most popular doll will be released next month

Barbie on the screen and in the gallery

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Hunter Biden’s plea bargain: did he get off too lightly?

Best articles: International

The Wagner Group: Russia’s “hidden arm” in Africa

What the scientists are saying…

“Embryos” created without eggs

British children are shorter

Titan: a doomed voyage to the ocean floor

Gossip

Windrush: the ship that changed a nation

The “cat girl”: a story with nine lives

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football, F1, golf, boxing: are the Saudis taking over?

Tennis: the All-England Club embraces AI

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Honesty and interest rates

Review of reviews: Books

Theatre: Dear England

Podcasts… on politics, economics and AI

Film

National Portrait Gallery: the reopening • National Portrait Gallery, London WC2 (020-7306 0055, npg.org.uk). Now open to the public

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

Klimt’s last portrait

Best books… Leon McCarron • The award-winning writer, broadcaster and explorer chooses his favourite books about rivers. His latest book, Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation (Corsair £20), is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for sale

Colourful abodes

What the experts recommend

Recipe of the week • Radishes are very easy to grow, even in small spaces such as windowsills, says Dr Alanna Collen. And the beauty of them is that you get two crops in one: the root and the leaves. The pink, peppery root makes a fantastic pickle, and using salt brine in place of vinegar helps their fresh, spicy flavour shine through.

A perfect summer wine

New cars: what the critics say

The best… tennis rackets

Tips… effective ways to treat hayfever

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… UK lakes for swimming and walks

This week’s dream: a boat trip around Sweden’s Bohuslän islands

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

The whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers

Holocaust survivor who competed in the Olympics

Companies in the news • …and how they were assessed

Ocado/Amazon: get out of jail card?

Seven days in the Square Mile

Issue of the week: the BoE’s “shock...