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It wasn’t all bad

The main stories… …and how they were covered

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Spirit of the age

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Pension shortfalls

Prostate screening

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 TV presenter and former motorcycle racer Guy Martin

Viewpoint: Speaking baseball

Farewell

Prevent • The UK’s counter-terrorism scheme has been blighted by well-publicised failures and accusations of prejudice. Is it fit for purpose?

The changing landscape of extremism

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

The election victory that Trump may come to regret

Best articles: International

Erdogan’s Turkey: descending into one-man rule?

What the scientists are saying…

The wildlife thriving at Chernobyl

A more powerful skinny jab

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Reform: the challenge from the hard-right

Birth rates: a startling decline

The Mandy files: a “bumper crop of gossip”

Russia: another red line crossed

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

Football: Arsenal fall agonisingly short in Budapest

Tennis: Jannik Sinner unravels in the Roland Garros heat

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Musk’s brave new world

Review of reviews: Books

Novel of the week

THE WEEK Bookshop

Theatre: The Tempest • Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon (01789-331111). Until 20 June Running time: 2hrs 10mins

Podcasts… on people smugglers, and anxiety, and food

Film

Exhibition of the week Winston Churchill: The Painter • The Wallace Collection, London W1 (020-7563 9500, wallacecollection.org). Until 29 November

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

A long-lost Carrington

The week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

Best books… Victoria Pendleton

Television

New to streaming

Best properties on the market

Food & Drink

Risotto con gamberi e zucchini (prawn and courgette risotto)

The best… used small cars for around £2,000

Tips… for damage to cars caused by potholes

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… Britain’s ancient walking paths

This week’s dream: an epic train journey into the Namib Desert

Getting the flavour of…

Hotel of the week

The “saxophone colossus” of the bebop generation

Trailblazing actress who starred in Suzie Wong

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

EasyJet: private flight to the US?

Issue of the week: the BP bust-up • A messy drama has lifted the lid on the dysfunctional oil major – and on UK corporate governance more widely

Scorching chips: what the experts think

Feed your portfolio

Commentators

City profiles

Who’s tipping what

Back to the 1970s: why Labour still can’t escape its ghosts • Superficially, Britain today has little in common with the era of Angel Delight and Fawlty Towers. But as Keir Starmer’s ministers plot against him, and Labour struggles to fix the country’s economic problems, Dominic Sandbrook argues that there...