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

Note to readers

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Starmer’s pitch

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Sunak’s marching orders

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Rayner investigation

Martha’s Rule roll-out

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 writer John Boyne

Viewpoint: The conservative dilemma

Farewell

The asylum trap • The UK asylum system is widely acknowledged to be broken. It’s also an electoral “wedge issue” between the Tories and Labour

Asylum by numbers

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE…I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Scarlett Johansson vs. AI: a cautionary tale

Best articles: International

Germany’s trial of the century: the plot to topple Scholz

What the scientists are saying…

The lost Nile that linked the pyramids

A glue to catch pests

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Michael Gove: a divisive reformer bows out

Israel’s isolation: an overdue “reckoning”?

The Post Office: Vennells takes the stand

“Prepping” for disaster: normal behaviour?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

FA Cup: will Manchester United’s victory save ten Hag?

Formula 1: the triumph of a local boy in Monaco

Kerr smashes the British mile record

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The return of national service

My Family and Other Rock Stars

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Blue Ruin

Theatre: Romeo & Juliet • Duke of York’s Theatre, London WC2 (0844-871 7615). Until 3 August

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Exhibition of the week The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain • Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex (01243-774557, pallant.org.uk). Until 20 October

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

Carrington’s surreal record

Best books… Zeinab Badawi • The broadcaster and author picks her favourites. She will be appearing at the Chalke History Festival on 25 June to talk about her new book, An African History of Africa (WH Allen £25). Tickets at chalkefestival.com

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for auction

Houses with swimming pools

What the experts recommend

Recipe of the week: baked bean can soda bread

New cars: what the critics say

The best… manual coffee grinders

Tips… on creating your own terrarium • Terrariums are used to grow tropical plants in a closed container, to raise the humidity

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the best spas in Eastern Europe

This week’s dream: the raw beauty of Orkney’s northern isles

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Charismatic business titan who launched Kerrygold

British swimmer who won gold at the 1976 Olympics

Companies in the news…and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

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