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 Houthis engage

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Politics

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Resident doctors’ strike

The car finance scandal

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 broadcaster and cook Si King

Viewpoint: Selling AI

Farewell

Hungary’s illiberal democracy • Viktor Orbán has led Hungary since 2010, and has remade its political institutions. But elections this month pose a major challenge

Maga: “watching the Hungarians”

Best of the American columnists

Gambling on war: corruption in the White House?

Meloni’s gamble backfires: a turning point for Italy

Best articles: International

What the scientists are saying…

Democracy wasn’t only for the Greeks

Lab gloves are the culprit

Pick of the week’s Gossip

McSweeney’s phone: a murky business?

Starmer: crunch time for his premiership

Donald Trump: trouble in the heartlands

Matt Brittin: a new broom at the BBC

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

Football: Spurs call time on the Tudor experiment

Formula 1: a “terrifying” crash at Suzuka

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Remote consulting: a second opinion

Review of reviews: Books

Novel of the week

THE WEEK Bookshop

Theatre: John Proctor Is the Villain

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film & TV

The Pitt: superb medical drama in the mould of ER

Exhibition of the week Hurvin Anderson • Tate Britain, London SW1 (020-7887 8888, tate.org.uk). Until 23 August

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

Art history, from the back

The week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

Best books… Colin Thubron • The writer picks five recent books of travel among endangered wildlife. He is the judging chair of the Sherborne Prize for Travel Writing, announced on 12 April (sherbornetravelwritingfestival.com). His novel, Passage, is published on 6 August

Television

New to streaming

Best properties on the market

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week • I first ate this in Jerez in the south of Spain, and it’s now a regular on the menu at my restaurant Bar Lourinhã, says Matt McConnell. We haven’t messed around with it too much: it’s all about the classic flavours.

To decant or not

New cars: what the critics say

The best… cordless vacuum cleaners

Tips of the week… to cut fuel costs for driving

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the most fabulous cinemas

This week’s dream: the wines of Portugal’s Alentejo region

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Former PM of France who brought in the 35-hour week

The Swedish author who pioneered “death cleaning”

CITY • Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

BP: Meg O’Neill’s fiery baptism

Issue of the week: the National Savings scandal • NS&I’s deposits debacle has exacerbated distrust and threatens a critical source of public funding

Mad march in markets: what the experts say

Spring reading

Commentators

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