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 Rwanda bill

Gaza’s humanitarian crisis

THE WEEK

The Week

Tories at war

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Cop28 ends in a deal

Ruth Perry inquest

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 Shirley Ballas, head judge on Strictly Come Dancing

Viewpoint: Festive inflation

Farewell

The failure of the Middle East peace process • In the second of two briefings, we examine the Israel-Palestine conflict from the Six Day War of 1967 onwards

The Netanyahu doctrine

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

Antisemitism on campus: free speech and double standards

The war in Ukraine: Kyiv loses its momentum

Land grab in Latin America: a dictator’s dream?

What the scientists are saying…

Penguins take 10,000 naps a day

A test of biological age

The Covid Inquiry: Boris Johnson’s defence

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Putin: heading for victory in Ukraine?

The UAE: a fit owner for the Telegraph?

Wit & Wisdom

Football: how Aston Villa became title contenders

Cricket: defeat for England, but grounds for hope

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Rules that break families

Books of the year • The critics’ top eight choices based on Christmas selections in national newspapers, the Evening Standard, The TLS, The Spectator and The New Statesman

Musical: Pacific Overtures • Menier Chocolate Factory, London SE1 (020-7378 1713) Running time: 1hr 45mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Exhibition of the week Turner Prize 2023 • Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, Sussex (01323-434670, townereastbourne.org.uk). Until 14 April

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

The row over Hitler’s statue

Best books… Marion Turner • The writer and academic picks books about the Middle Ages. Her new book, Chaucer: Here and Now (Bodleian Library £30), ties in with an exhibition about the poet at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, until 28 April (visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk)

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming

Best properties on the market • Art deco and Arts and Crafts houses

Food & Drink • Nine of the best food books from 2023

Consumer • The best… presents for adults

This week’s dream: the surprisingly unspoilt delights of Lamu

Getting the flavour of…

Four of the best hotels for a UK winter break • As we head into mid-winter, a stay at a cosy hotel might be a tonic, says Fiona Duncan at The Daily Telegraph

Trailblazing writer who “took poetry everywhere”

Love Story actor who had much to say sorry for

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Heathrow Airport Holdings: Saudi Arabia in the control tower?

Issue of the week: could Labour re-energise the City? • The Square Mile’s bigwigs are flocking to Labour....