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.

General election: Britain heads to the polls

It wasn’t all bad

Starmer’s in-tray

How the night will unfold

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Victory for the far-right

Postal vote delays

Summer Covid wave

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

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 forensic scientist Professor Patricia Wiltshire

Viewpoint: The Omnicause

Farewell

The great baby bust • The fertility rate is falling sharply in the UK and across the world, a trend with major economic and societal consequences

Baby bonuses and subsidised minivans

Best of the American columnists

Showdown in New York: the most expensive primary in history

Best articles: International

Riots in Kenya: the “keyboard warriors” take to the streets

What the scientists are saying…

A robot face with human skin

Ketamine for depression

Biden: will he withdraw from the race?

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Farage: heading to the Commons?

Junior doctors: a warning to Labour

Wit & Wisdom

Football: Jude Bellingham rescues England

Formula 1: Verstappen and Norris clash in Austria

South Africa denied at the last by “masterful” India

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The government we deserve

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Endgame 1944

Under a Rock

Rosarita

Theatre: The Constituent • The Old Vic, London SE1 (0344-871-7628). Until 10 August

Podcasts… Afghan talent, animals, and democracy in peril

Film

Douglas Is Cancelled: Hugh Bonneville plays a shamed news presenter

Exhibition of the week Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens • National Portrait Gallery, London WC2 (020-7306 0055, npg.org.uk). Until 8 September

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

A Potter record

Best books… Lara Maiklem • The author and mudlarker chooses her five favourite books about fossicking and finding. Her new book, A Mudlarking Year: Finding Treasure in Every Season (Bloomsbury £22), is published this week

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming

Characterful thatched houses

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: salsa tatemada (charred salsa)

New cars: what the critics say

The best… baby monitors

Tips… how to keep car running costs down

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… unsung public European gardens

This week’s dream: a forbidding wilderness in New Mexico

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Poet and novelist who wrote a trio of acclaimed memoirs

One of the last survivors of America’s Six Triple Eight

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Boeing: an object lesson in the evasion of responsibility

Issue of the week: the economic inheritance • As the nation heads to the polls, things are looking up for the economy

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