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
Politics
Spirit of the age
Good week for
Bad week for
Record A-level results
Energy price rise
Poll watch
Europe at a glance
The world at a glance
The world at a glance
People
Farewell
The UK at a glance
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
Rejecting the jab: a symbol of tribal membership?
Best articles: International
Death in Kyiv: Belarus’s war on dissidents
What the scientists are saying…
The work of the granny giraffes
Long Covid rare in children
Tokyo’s “grand human opera”: a tonic for a weary world
Pick of the week’s Gossip
Covid testing: the holiday roulette
The PM’s joke: is anyone laughing?
Wit & Wisdom
Statistics of the week
Sport
Football: Messi’s tearful departure
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
Good times for pensioners?
Review of reviews: Books
Drama & CDs
Albums of the week: three new releases
Films to stream • Labelled film noir by a French critic in 1946, the cynical thrillers that emerged in Hollywood in the early 1940s had an extraordinary, 20-year-long run. Here are five noir classics made in the first of those two decades:
Film & TV
Am Victoria: a portrait of a woman on the edge
Exhibition of the week Tokyo: Art & Photography • Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (01865-278000, ashmolean.org). Until 3 January 2022
News from the art world
The List
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
Coming up for auction
Best properties on the market
Food & Drink
Recipe of the week: the perfectly burnt salsa
Consumer
New cars: what the critics say
The best… headphones for kids
Tips of the week… how to best use your dishwasher
And for those who have everything…
Where to find… seaside festivals in the UK
Obituaries
Companies in the news • ...and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
Frasers Group: keeping it in the family
Issue of the week: Britain for sale • The world is vying for UK companies. Why aren’t the locals interested?
Gold’s “flash crash”: what the experts think
Boris vs. Rishi
Commentators
City profiles
Who’s tipping what
Market summary
Directors’ dealings
Form guide • Shares tipped 12 weeks ago
The mysterious origins of the Cerne Abbas Giant • On a Dorset hillside many years ago, an unknown group of people inscribed the famous form of a naked man with a long erect penis. When did this happen? And why did they do it? Rebecca Mead investigates