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

Keir Starmer’s “zombie premiership”

Reform UK: smashing the old duopoly

THE WEEK

The Week

Politics

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

The King’s Speech

China spying case

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 actor David Morrissey

Viewpoint: Why small is best

Farewell

The Illuminati and the New World Order • A short-lived secret society founded 250 years ago this month lives on to this day in the fevered minds of conspiracy theorists

The Eye of Providence

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

Voting rights: a blow to black democracy in the south?

Best articles: International

The BJP takes West Bengal: is India a one-party state?

What the scientists are saying…

Are wrecker orcas just naughty kids?

The new cancer jab

Pick of the week’s Gossip

The SNP: is it now “undefeatable”?

The “Polanski-wave”: did it disappoint?

War in Ukraine: Russia’s mounting losses

The Andes strain: can it be contained?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

Football: Arsenal move in on title, with help from VAR

Boxing: Dubois silences critics in blood-soaked epic

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

A time for real leadership

Review of reviews: Books

Novel of the week

THE WEEK Bookshop

Musical: Fourteen Again • The Victoria Wood Theatre, Bowness-on-Windermere (01539-440872). Until 6 June Run time: 2hrs 20mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film & TV

Rivals: Jilly Cooper’s 1980s bonkbuster makes a glorious return

Exhibition of the week Zurbarán • National Gallery, London WC2 (020-7747 2885, nationalgallery.org.uk). Until 23 August

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

Taking the piss in Venice

The week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

Best books… Jeremy Vine • The journalist, broadcaster and host of BBC Radio 2’s lunchtime slot picks his favourite books. His second crime novel, Turn the Dial for Death, has just been published (HarperCollins £20)

Television

New to streaming

Best properties on the market

Food & Drink

Beetroot with olives, toasted hazelnuts and pul biber oil

Denza Z9 GT EV: a “tantalising proposition” from BYD’s premium brand

The best… waterproof gadgets

Tips… coping with flight chaos this summer

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the best UK nature festivals

This week’s dream: riding and camping in the Atlas Mountains

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

The brash media mogul who transformed television

Politician behind the “homes for votes” scandal

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

E.On/Ovo: Britain’s new energy giant

Issue of the week: politicians and gilts • Bond markets smell a crisis from a potential lurch to the left in the Labour party

Making money: what the experts think

Nuclear spring

Commentators

City profile

Who’s tipping what

Unfathomable horror: the doomed dive to the...