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 attack from Gaza: Israel goes to war

It wasn’t all bad

The link to Iran

A failure of intelligence

THE WEEK

The Week

Starmer: PM in waiting?

Rwanda court case

Prison capacity warning

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

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 entrepreneur and founder of Octopus Energy, Greg Jackson

The “T” word

Farewell

Wegovy: the weight-loss “wonder drug” • Could a new class of treatments be the solution to the obesity crisis?

Purgatives, pills and fen-phen

Best articles: Britain

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

Gangs, guns and bombs: Sweden’s “crisis of violence”

Slovakia’s election: a crucial victory for Vladimir Putin?

The Voice: Australia votes on Aboriginal rights

The speaker’s ejection: chaos in Washington

What the scientists are saying…

Britain’s disappearing wildlife

False penicillin allergies

Pick of the week’s Gossip

The cigarette ban: will prohibition work?

Network North: a high-speed policy change

Rutherglen: Labour’s “seismic” win

Jimmy Savile: a “lurid” dramatisation?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: Arteta’s Arsenal finally get the better of City

Cricket: England’s World Cup campaign “back on track”

Marathon man almost cracks the two-hour milestone

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Terror and the cycle of violence

The Maverick

Unruly

Fosse wins the Nobel

Theatre: Old Friends

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Beckham: entertaining documentary about the footballer and entrepreneur

Exhibition of the week Frans Hals • National Gallery, London WC2 (020-7747 2885, nationalgallery.org.uk). Until 21 January 2024

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

NFTs: from boom to bust

Best books… Louis de Bernières • The bestselling author’s new novel, Light Over Liskeard (Harvill Secker £20), is out this week. He is speaking at the Falmouth Book Festival this Monday (16 October) at 7pm. See falmouthbookfestival.com

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for sale

Elegant Georgian residences

What the experts recommend

Recipe of the week • These spicy, rustic-looking nibbles are my take on South Asian fried street food, says Tom Kerridge. They need little else other than mango chutney for dipping, and a cold drink to wash them down.

New Zealand wines

New cars: what the critics say

The best… wellness gadgets

Tips… unusual recycling possibilities

And for those who have everything…

Apps… the best smartphone map apps

This week’s dream: a remote island escape in Estonia

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

Fearless peace campaigner who co-founded CND • Pat Arrowsmith 1930-2023

Australian former soldier who survived the “Death...