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 death of Navalny

Labour’s double victory

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The Week

The rise in antisemitism

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

English test scandal

Trident missile failure

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 volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer

Viewpoint: Drunkonyms

Farewell

Self-driving cars: the revolution that wasn’t? • Why driverless vehicles are still a very rare sight on the world’s roads today

The road to automation

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

School shootings: holding the parents to account

Best articles: International

Jubilant behind bars: Imran Khan defies the military

What the scientists are saying…

Ancient wall found under the Baltic

A beef-rice hybrid

Gossip

London’s Overground: a “woke” rebrand

“Rishicession”: the UK’s faltering economy

War in Ukraine: the fall of Avdiivka

The ban on mobiles: gesture politics?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

Cricket: Stokes’s England suffer a crushing defeat

Football: young Dane finally hits his stride for United

Tennis: no one’s going single any more

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Keeping mobiles out of school

Smoke and Ashes

Breaking Through

Burma Sahib

Theatre: The Picture of Dorian Gray • Theatre Royal Haymarket, London SW1 (020-7930 8800, thr.co.uk). Until 11 May

Theatre: Dear Octopus • Lyttelton, National Theatre, London SE1 (020-3989 5455, nationaltheatre.org.uk)

Film

The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth: was Columbia an avoidable disaster?

Exhibition of the week Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind • Tate Modern, London SE1 (020-7887 8888, tate.org.uk). Until 1 September

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

An art project for Assange

Best books… Roger Lewis • The writer picks his favourites. He will be speaking about his latest book, Erotic Vagrancy: Everything About Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor (Riverrun £30), at Book Week on 2 March (jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk).

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming

15th and 16th century houses

Food & Drink • What the experts recommend

Recipe of the week: leek, spinach and chickpea soup

Land Rover Defender 130 V8: “an exercise in excess”

The best… steam irons

Tips… how to be safe on the slopes

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… country pubs for a cosy weekend

This week’s dream: Palermo’s swagger and scruffy charm

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Opposition leader who refused to be cowed by the Kremlin

Well-loved DJ who pioneered the “zoo” format

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Drop the dead lion

Issue of the week: Currys in play • The...