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The Week UK

V. 1344
Magazine

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


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Frequency: Weekly Pages: 44 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: V. 1344

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: August 13, 2021

Formats

OverDrive Magazine

subjects

News & Politics

Languages

English

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


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