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.

The main stories… …and how they were covered

Stasis in the strait

It wasn’t all bad

THE WEEK

The Week

Politics

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

The fifth heatwave

Farage case reopened

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

Castaway of the week

Viewpoint: Why teenagers don’t read

Farewell

China’s green revolution • Beijing is embracing clean energy on a massive scale. What does this mean for the world?

Engineers vs. lawyers

Best articles: Britain

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

Upset in Michigan: a disaster for the Democratic leadership?

Raking in the cash: the “money-grubbing” presidency

Best articles: International

Putin’s Russia: a land that has “run out of workers”

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Kemi Badenoch: backing a former neo-Nazi

Gaza: Netanyahu snubs Trump’s plan

Reform vs. Restore: the fight on the Right

Daniel Kinahan: extradited at last

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: Infantino and the crisis at Fifa

The Tour de France Femmes: refreshingly competitive

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Elon Musk’s aspirations

Review of reviews: Books

Novel of the week

THE WEEK Bookshop

Theatre: Game of Thrones: The Mad King • Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon (01789-331111). Until 5 September Run time: 3hrs 40mins

Theatre: The Silence of the Lambs • Curve, Leicester, Theatre Royal, Newcastle, and on (silenceofthelambsplay.com) Run time: 2hrs 15mins

Film & TV

Possession: a gothic thriller that grapples with important questions

Exhibition of the week Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime • The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (01223-332900, fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk). Until 17 January 2027

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

Recreating the perfect man

The week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

Best books… Bettany Hughes • The historian, author and broadcaster picks her five favourite books. Her new book for children, There Was an Egyptian in Your School, is out now (Puffin £8.99) and her documentary series Bettany Hughes’ Lost Worlds: Dawn of Civilisations is on C4

Television

New to streaming

Best properties on the market

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: mozzarella, peaches and anchovies

New cars: what the critics say

The best… kit for wildlife watchers

Tips of the week… on cooking and storing eggs

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… cottages with wild swimming

This week’s dream: a lost city in the Mexican jungle

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Irreverent columnist and former editor of Today

Record-breaking mountaineer who found fame on Netflix

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Thames Water: backlash over £1m payout to finance chief

Issue of the week: taking over easy Jet • The Apollo takeover has implications for budget travel and the London market

Chinese IPOs: what’s in the pipeline?

Gold: what next?

Commentators

City profile

Who’s tipping what

My meeting with the Taliban commander I once fought • As a US marine, Thomas Gibbons-Neff served in Afghanistan,...