The Week covers the Best of the British and Foreign Media. With its non partisan reporting, The Week gives the reader an insight into all the the news, people, arts, drama, property, books and how the international media has reported it. This concise guide allows the reader to be up to date and have a wealth of knowledge to allow them to discuss all these key topics with their friends and peers.
The main stories...and how they were covered
THE WEEK
The Week
The DUP implosion
Spirit of the age
Good week for
Bad week for
Hope for summer
Television shake-up
Poll watch
The UK at a glance
People
Castaway of the week • This week’s edition of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs featured the Scottish actor and director Richard Wilson
Viewpoint: The omnivore’s dilemma
Farewell
Armenia’s “great calamity” • The killing of hundreds of thousands of Armenians during the last years of the Ottoman Empire remains an explosive issue today
Defining genocide
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
Going for their guns: the surge in the US murder rate
Best articles: International
Biden’s meeting with Putin: a win for the Kremlin?
What the scientists are saying…
A green alternative to plastic
Instant Covid screening
Pick of the week’s Gossip
GB News: opposing cancel culture
The rape review: a shocking mea culpa
WFH: is it grinding us down?
Cummings’s texts: another bombshell?
Wit & Wisdom
Statistics of the week
Sport
F1: Verstappen outfoxes Hamilton again
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
The iniquities of home work
Review of reviews: Books
Drama & Podcasts
Films to stream
Film & TV
Together: “an absolute wonder”
Exhibition of the week Nina Hamnett • Charleston, East Sussex (01323-811626, charleston.org.uk). Until 30 August
News from the art world
The List
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing and reading
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
New to subscription TV
Best properties on the market • River and canalside properties
Food & Drink
Recipe of the week: pappardelle with cavolo nero and burrata
Consumer
One of the last titans of the African independence struggle
Companies in the news ...and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
Wise/ Made.com : a tale of two IPOs
Issue of the week: Morrisons in play • Britain’s fourth-largest supermarket has been targeted by private equity. Should we care?
Bitcoin’s crash: what the experts think
Isas are back in fashion
Commentators
City profiles
Who’s tipping what
Market summary
Directors’ dealings
Form guide
Market view
“Democratising the right to laziness”: the rise of grocery apps • Companies that deliver groceries on-demand in as little as ten minutes are springing up all over the UK, and receiving millions in investment. But what might we lose by never popping out for milk again, asks Harry Wallop