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.

Trump prepares for office

Cop29 opens in Baku

It wasn’t all bad

THE WEEK

The Week

The threat to Ukraine

Assisted dying legislation

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

Trump’s ancestral homeland

Farewell

American oligarch • Elon Musk’s alliance with Donald Trump is causing concern across liberal America

Musk’s turn to “dark Maga”

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Joe Biden’s legacy: economically strong, politically disastrous

Netanyahu’s gambit: axing his own defence minster

Funeral in Berlin: Scholz pulls the plug on his coalition

What the scientists are saying…

Monkeys will not type out Shakespeare

One in ten children obese

US election: why Kamala Harris lost

Gossip

Justin Welby: brought down by a scandal

Amsterdam: ugly scenes on European streets

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

Rugby union: Wales suffer home defeat to Fiji

Football: cracks appear in Manchester City

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The end of the family farm?

Review of reviews: Books

Theatre: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button • Ambassadors Theatre, London WC2 (0333-009 5399). Until 15 February Running time: 2hrs 30mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film & TV

Wolf Hall: triumphant return of the BBC drama, based on Hilary Mantel’s books

Exhibition of the week Drawing the Italian Renaissance • The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London SW1 (0303-123 7301, rct.uk). Until 9 March

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

A Renaissance diagnosis?

Best books… Niall Williams • The Irish novelist and playwright chooses his five favourite books. His latest novel, Time of the Child (Bloomsbury £16.99), is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming

Remarkable properties for £600,000 or less

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: scottiglia di capriolo (venison casserole)

New cars: what the critics say

The best… at-home styling tools

Tips of the week… how to get served at a busy pub

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the best writing retreats in the UK

This week’s dream: a journey along the coast of California

Getting the flavour of…

Rental of the week

The giant of American music who produced Thriller

The last survivor of the original cast of The Archers

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

UK business: Budget tax revolt

Issue of the week: Trump and tariffs • The president-elect’s obsession with tariffs is economically illiterate – and could prove very dangerous

America first: Trump and your portfolio

Swan-song

Commentators

City profile

Who’s tipping what

Market summary

The beauty bias: why it pays to be attractive • Academics working in “pulchronomics”, the controversial economics of beauty, have proved that looks really do matter. Tom Whipple – a three out of five – investigates

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