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

It wasn’t all bad

THE WEEK

The Week

The Signal leak

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Assisted dying law

Pothole funding

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 midwife Donna Ockenden

Viewpoint: A nation of shoplifters

Farewell

Greenland: a nice bit of “real estate”? • Donald Trump wants to own the world’s biggest island. Why?

Life in the far north

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

The JFK files: the truth at last?

Best articles: International

Turkey’s autocrat: Erdogan edges closer to “rule for life”

What the scientists are saying…

A heart made from titanium

Implants to treat addiction

Adolescence: shedding light on a toxic online world

Pick of the week’s Gossip

President Trump: an autocrat in the making?

Heathrow’s fire: a “global embarrassment”

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Boxing: the astonishing career of the “Punching Preacher”

Football: Tuchel’s England labour to victory

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Professional antagonism

Review of reviews: Books

Drama & Music

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Exhibition of the week Edvard Munch Portraits • National Portrait Gallery, London WC2 (020-7306 0055, npg.org.uk). Until 15 June

Where to buy…

The affair of the golden toilet

Best books… Don McCullin • The celebrated photojournalist picks six favourites. He will talk to Richard Ovenden about his life and work, and will be awarded this year’s Bodley Medal, at the Oxford Literary Festival on 3 April (oxfordliteraryfestival.org)

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to Netflix

Best properties on the market

Food & Drink

Roast lamb shoulder with ginger and fresh turmeric • Ovens are a relatively new addition to many Indian kitchens, says Roopa Gulati: in Calcutta, this lamb shoulder would originally have been pot-roasted on the stove or cooked in a big pressure cooker. Fresh turmeric is the keynote spice here – it isn’t as astringent as dried and ground turmeric, and has a bright orange hue and citrussy flavour.

New cars: what the critics say

The best… oral hygiene tools

Tips of the week… managing an allotment

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… hotels with literary connections

This week’s dream: following the Tea Horse Road in China

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

Modest Irish pilot who was the last of The Few

Double agent credited with preventing a third world war

CITY Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Supermarket price wars: Leighton returns to the battlefield

Seven days in the Square Mile

Issue of the week: Starmer and the tech bros • Britain’s mooted “prosperity deal” with the US could exact a hefty political price

Making money: what the experts think

Spotting dodgy tax schemes • The jockey Frankie Dettori has filed for bankruptcy following “relentless pursuit” by HMRC over a long-running tax avoidance case, says...