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

The Nato summit • What happened

Crisis at the BBC

THE WEEK

The Week

Putin vs. Wagner

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

By-election looms

Record mortgage rates

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 Peter Doig

“Evil when bored”

Farewell

Here comes El Niño • Last week, the World Meteorological Organisation confirmed that El Niño – a weather pattern with worldwide effects – is back

El Niño and the fate of civilisations

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

Bidenomics: changing the way America does business

Best articles: International

The Fukushima solution: a million tons of radioactive water

What the scientists are saying…

Do octopuses dream?

A watch to spot Parkinson’s

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Captain Tom: a tainted legacy?

Labour: a new plan for England’s schools

Threads: the tech billionaires face off

Ticket offices: on track for closure

Wit & Wisdom

Cricket: England keep Ashes hopes alive at Headingley

Tennis: bending the knee to the BBC at Wimbledon

An agonising end for a cycling great

Sporting headlines

Charity

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Farewell to the ticket office

Review of reviews: Books

Podcasts… cricket, corporate espionage and corruption

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Joanna Lumley’s Spice Trail Adventure: an “uncynical” celebrity travelogue

Exhibition of the week Paul McCartney, Photographs 1963-64 • National Portrait Gallery, London WC2 (020-7306 0055, npg.org.uk). Until 1 October

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

An architecture “wonderland”

Best books… Lisa Jewell • The bestselling novelist will be appearing at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate on 21 July, talking about her new book None of This is True (Century £20), out this week

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to subscription TV

Grade II properties for less than £1m

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week • Salty and sweet, this summery dish is the perfect topping for hunks of grilled bread, says Ravinder Bhogal. Or you could leave out the whipped feta element, and serve the tomatoes with pasta or gnocchi.

Low-alcohol beers

New cars: what the critics say

The best… eco-friendly electric toothbrushes

Tips… how to garden during a hosepipe ban

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… unusual sporting events

This week’s dream: the wild magic of Socotra

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

Acclaimed editor of Naipaul, Lessing and Miss Piggy

French oceanographer known as “Mr Titanic”

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

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