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 blood scandal

Death of a president

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The Week

Starmer’s promises

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Contaminated water

Fewer arrests request

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 athlete Dame Sarah Storey

Viewpoint: Tipping, the American way

Farewell

The gentlemen’s clubs of London • The Garrick’s decision to admit women has put London’s “Clubland” in the spotlight

Shame and scandal in St James’s

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Banning lab-grown meat: another front in the culture war

A prime minister shot down by a 71-year-old assassin

The prison break: spotlight on France’s brutal drug gangs

What the scientists are saying…

A gene therapy for deafness

The impact of obesity

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Sex education: a political battleground

China and Russia: an anti-Western alliance

War crimes: the allegations against Israel

Cyclists: is it time for tougher laws?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: Manchester City win historic fourth title in a row

Sporting headlines

Boxing: Fury humbled in Riyadh

“Nearly man” no more

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Getting tough on cyclists

Long Island

You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here

Bluestockings

Theatre: Fawlty Towers: The Play • Apollo Theatre, London W1 (0330-333 4809). Until 28 September Running time: 1hr 50mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Megalopolis • Forty years in the making, Francis Ford Coppola’s sci-fi epic divided the critics at Cannes

IF • Sweet children’s film about imaginary friends Dir: John Krasinski 1hr 44mins (U)

Rebus: six-part BBC drama starring the charismatic Richard Rankin

Exhibition of the week Now You See Us • Tate Britain, London SW1 (020-7887 8888, tate.org.uk). Until 13 October

The King’s first official portrait: the verdict

Best books… Penelope Tree • The 1960s supermodel chooses her favourite books about coming of age. Her autobiographical debut novel, Piece of My Heart (Moonflower Publishing £18.99), is out this week

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming TV

Dreamy Italian properties for less than €1m

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: courgette, honey and lemon cake

New cars: what the critics say

Food experts recommend their favourite kitchen gadgets

Tips… how to grow your own tomatoes

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the UK’s best whisky distilleries

This week’s dream: a remote Indian Ocean paradise

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

The short-story writer who was “as good as it gets”

B-movie director and mentor to a generation

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Pennon/Thames Water: financial health...