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 Tory manifesto

Macron’s gamble

THE WEEK

The Week

The D-Day fiasco

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Douglas Ross to resign

Youngest murderers

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 Co-op Group CEO Shirine Khoury-Haq

Viewpoint: Bossy machines

Farewell

Decarbonising the national grid • In theory, Britain’s electricity grid will be carbon neutral by 2035. What will that involve? Is it even possible?

Storage methods

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Biden’s border crackdown: too little, too late?

Best articles: International

An electoral shock in the world’s largest democracy

New breakthroughs in cancer research…

Ancient engravings on the Orinoco

The most distant galaxy

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Vaughan Gething: the chaos in Welsh Labour

Literary festivals: attacked from within

The Lib Dems: a bold manifesto

Swift-mania: Tay Tay arrives in the UK

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Tennis: the “unstoppable” rise of Carlos Alcaraz

Rugby union: Saints triumph in Premiership final for the ages

Return to form for Britain’s “greatest” sprinter

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

MPs, potholes, and Putin

Challenger

Going Home

This Strange Eventful History

Theatre: Viola’s Room • One Cartridge Place, London SE18 (punchdrunk.com). Until 18 August Running time: 1hr

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

D-Day: The Unheard Tapes – an immersive BBC documentary

Exhibition of the week Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland • Studio Voltaire, London SW4 (020-7622 1294, studiovoltaire.org). Until 25 August. Free entry

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

Monet and the political vandals

Best books… Reverend Richard Coles • The writer and broadcaster’s latest novel, Murder at the Monastery (W&N £22), is just out. He is an ambassador for Independent Bookshop Week (15-22 June; booksaremybag.com), the annual celebration of indie bookshops

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for auction

Houses for sailing enthusiasts

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: grilled prawns with garam masala butter

New cars: what the critics say

The best… unusual camping gear

Tips… how to clean your car like a pro

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… new UK camping and glampsites

A tourist’s view of Saudi Arabia

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Television doctor whose work changed thousands of lives

The Chicago secretary who became “First Grandma”

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Kiss and tell

Issue of the week: trouble in Europe • Political ructions in France and Germany have exposed the fragility of their...