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

Saving the NHS

Trump targeted again

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Missile diplomacy

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Huw Edwards sentenced

Junior doctors’ deal

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

Viewpoint: Management newspeak

Farewell

Europe’s turn to the far-right • A new generation of right-wing politicians is making steady progress on the continent

Pastis, Haribos and dating advice

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

The Trump-Harris debate: will it shape the election?

Best articles: International

The end of free movement? Germany closes the door

What the scientists are saying…

A dye to make skin see-through

Ageing teenage brains

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Prisoners: a “rushed exodus”

The national debt: a terrifying warning

Kate and William: adapting to the Insta age

Starmer’s freebies: a gift to his critics

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: Manchester City in the dock

Formula 1: delight and disappointment for McLaren

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Dealing with Putin’s threats

Wild Thing

Elaine

Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind

Musical: Why Am I So Single? • Garrick Theatre, London WC2 (0330-333 4811). Until 13 February 2025

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Exhibition of the week Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers • National Gallery, London WC2 (020-7747 2885, nationalgallery.org.uk). Until 19 January 2025

Derek Boshier: pioneering British pop artist

Best books… Rachel Cooke • The writer and journalist chooses her favourite books about friendship. Her latest book, The Virago Book of Friendship (Virago £18.99) – an anthology of writing about female friendship – it out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for sale

Italian hideaways for less than £1m

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: smoked butter beans with hake

New cars: what the critics say

Some of the best… home exercise kit

Tips of the week… how to clean suede shoes

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the UK’s best Japanese gardens

This week’s dream: a narrowboat journey across England

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Classically trained actor who gave a voice to Darth Vader

Divisive Peruvian president jailed for rights abuses

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Reimagining PwC

Issue of the week: Labour’s industrial dilemma • Net-zero policies and fiscal prudence are hastening plant closures

US and UK rate cuts: what the experts think

CGT strategies • There’s still time to swerve the Chancellor’s predicted capital gains tax raid, said Ian Cowie in The Sunday Times. But you’ll need to move swiftly.

Commentators

City profile

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