The Week UK

The best of the media in one magazine. Each issue stitches together news and views from more than 200 global news sources into an utterly enjoyable, informative read.

It wasn’t all bad

The main stories… …and how they were covered

The diesel crisis

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Politics

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

RAF Fairford “threats”

Jury trial plans

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 doctor and textbook writer Professor Dame Parveen Kumar

Viewpoint: “Attention infidelity”

Farewell

Burnham’s plan to fix social care • Adult social care is regarded as the most significant unresolved policy issue in Britain. The PM has promised to “rip off the plaster”

How other nations pay for care

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… •  I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Moral depravity on campus: the Cornell university rape case

A new generation of angry youths in France…

…and mass protests in Spain over housing

What the scientists are saying…

A village tainted by forever chemicals

Hypertension warning

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Man City: an own goal for Burnham

Electoral reform: is PR a vote-winner?

The Green Party: the Zionism vote

Flydubai 1073: a major disaster averted

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

Football: England make the world sit up and take notice

Formula 1: triumph and farce in Malaysia

Djokovic proves that obituaries were “premature”

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Exchange of the week

Review of reviews: Books

Novel of the week

Theatre: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? • @sohoplace, London W1 (0330-333 5961). Until 19 December Running time: 3hrs 30mins

Theatre: The Standard of Living • Theatre Royal Haymarket, London SW1 (020-7930 8800). Until 12 December Running time: 2hrs 30mins

Film & TV

War: delicious divorce drama with Sienna Miller and Dominic West

Exhibition of the week Turner Prize 2026 •  Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (01642-931232, mima.art). Until 29 March. Free entry

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

For sale: a mini Musée d’Orsay

The week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

Best books… David Szalay • The writer, whose novel Flesh won last year’s Booker Prize, selects his six favourite books. He is talking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Sunday 18 October

Television

Coming up for sale

Best properties on the market

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: university moong

Bentley Torcal: “the most powerful and torquey Bentley ever”

The best…presents for new parents

Tips of the week…for prepping and stockpiling

And for those who have everything…

Where to find…weird and wonderful British festivals

This week’s dream: the savage beauty of St Helena

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

TV presenter and campaigner who founded Childline

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

BT/TalkTalk: safety play or stitch-up?

Issue of the week: France on fire • France’s debt troubles have erupted amid huge social upheaval. Is there worse to come?

Making money: what the experts think

6% mortgages

Commentators

City profiles

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