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 Houthi advance

THE WEEK

The Week

Politics

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Lib Dem tax-cut pledge

Piddington asylum plan

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

Viewpoint: A followership problem

Farewell

The march of the data centres • The AI boom will require a massive physical infrastructure to sustain it, which is already proving hugely contentious

GPUs, LLMs and RAMmageddon

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

Canada: the 28th state of the European Union?

NAZA: the film causing outrage in Israel

How nativism has been normalised in Sweden

What the scientists are saying…

The truth about Roman roads

Cancer drug approved

Princess Diana: a battle royal over her memory

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Russia: Putin’s sham election

Greenland: a “dream” deal for Trump?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: Brighton give Arsenal a taste of their own medicine

Cricket: a resounding series victory for England T20 team

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Burnham’s balancing act

Review of reviews: Books

Novel of the week

Theatre: Fences • Oxford Playhouse (01865-305305) until 3 October, then touring (headlong.co.uk) Run time: 2hrs 35mins

Podcasts… Foreign reportage, poetry and audiobooks

Film & TV

Youth: Sharon Horgan’s new comedy about dating in later life

Exhibitions of the season • The Week recommends the best exhibitions to see around the UK this autumn and winter

At the Fourth Plinth: Tschabalala Self’s Lady in Blue

The week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

Best books… Kate Atkinson • The acclaimed author of Life After Life picks her five favourite books. She will be talking about her new novel, Our Noble Selves (Doubleday £22), at the Ilkley Literature Festival in Yorkshire on Friday 9 October. Also available to live stream

Television

Coming up for auction

Best properties on the market

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: Scotch collops

New cars: what the critics say

The best… pet tech

Tips… signs of burnout at work and how to stop it

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the UK’s best independent cinemas

This week’s dream: a summer in Canada’s “cottage country”

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Chicago-born critic who became a fixture on British TV

Dress designer known for his outrageous creations

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Nscale’s $35bn IPO: off-the-scale ambition?

Issue of the week: the AI debt bubble • Stock markets have taken potential apocalypse in their stride. But jitters about debt are mounting

Property problems: what the experts think

Foreign parts

Commentators

City profiles

Who’s tipping what

Box clever: how the shipping container built globalisation • By massively reducing the cost of transporting goods, the shipping container transformed global trade. But now, many ports are struggling to accommodate the ever-increasing demand for imported products. Alice Hancock and Peter...