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 main stories… …and how they were covered

THE WEEK

The Week

Politics

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Migrant crossings

Covid contract “unlawful”

Poll watch

The UK at a glance

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 former judge and crossbench peer Heather Hallett

Viewpoint: The elusive centrist voter

Farewell

China’s space race • It has landed craft on Mars and on the dark side of the Moon, and it is building a space station. What are China’s ambitions in space?

Landing on the red planet

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

The Tulsa massacre: facing up to a bloody legacy

Israel’s new coalition: end of the line for Netanyahu?

Crisis in Tigray: Ethiopia’s brutal civil war

What the scientists are saying…

The monkeys that change their accents

Climate change deaths

Pick of the week’s Gossip

The holiday debacle: an avoidable U-turn

Covid: how to vaccinate the world

Overseas aid: a backbench rebellion

Stonewall: champion or bully?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

Sport

Athletics: super fast times with “super spikes”

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Inviting wasps to a picnic

Book of the week

Novel of the week

Drama & Podcasts

Films to stream

New releases

Anne Boleyn: countdown to an execution

Exhibition of the week Nero: the man behind the myth • British Museum, London WC1 (020-7323 8299, britishmuseum.org). Until 24 October

News from the art world

Best books… Lorraine Candy • The former editor of The Sunday Times Style Magazine and podcaster chooses her favourite books. Her book “Mum, What’s Wrong With You?!” (4th Estate £14.99), a guide to raising teenage girls, is out this week

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing and reading

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for sale

Delightful mill houses

What the experts think

Recipe of the week

Wine choice

New cars: what the critics say

The best… garden lighting

Tips of the week… how to master textspeak

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… secondhand wedding dresses

Obituaries

Companies in the news ...and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Etsy/Depop: the rise of the “pre-loved” economy

Issue of the week: the sausage war • The UK Government’s latest fight with Brussels would be farcical if it wasn’t potentially so dangerous

Making money: what the experts think

Staycation Britain • The fact that most of us are grounded again this summer means a further boost to the domestic economy. Who’s cleaning up?

Commentators

City profiles

Who’s tipping what

Market summary

Directors’ dealings

Form guide

Market view

How Marbella became the drugs capital of the world • With hashish coming in from Morocco, cocaine from South...