The Week UK

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.

It wasn’t all bad

Johnson’s tax gamble

The Taliban government

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Jabs for schoolchildren

Spirit of the age

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

The social care conundrum • Boris Johnson has promised to “fix the crisis in social care once and for all”. But so has every government in recent history…

Lessons from abroad

The UK at a glance

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

Best articles: Britain

Texas’s abortion law: the Republicans get their way, at last

China’s war on celebrity: the Cultural Revolution 2.0?

The Kremlin’s fears about Afghanistan • The Moscow Times

A triumph for African democracy • The East African (Nairobi)

What the scientists are saying…

Romans feasted on fish and oil

Transplants cancelled

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Dominic Raab: passing the buck?

America: a retreat into isolationism?

Crime and punishment: a literary sentence

Abba: taking a chance on a reunion

Wit & Wisdom

Tennis: Britain’s “superstar in the making”

Cricket: a “deeply frustrating loss for England”

Cycling: Britain’s greatest Paralympian

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Britain’s low-wage economy

The Week • Open. Every issue.

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Tunnel 29

Sad Little Men

Musical: Bedknobs and Broomsticks • Touring until 1 May 2022 (bedknobsonstage.com) Running time: 2hrs 35mins (incl. interval)

Podcasts… divorce, femmes fatales and 007’s lost car

Films to stream

New releases

Vigil: the BBC’s sharp new submarine thriller

THE DAVID WINSTON PIANO COLLECTION

Exhibition of the week Humboldt Forum • Museum Island, Berlin, Germany (+49 30 99 211 89 89, humboldtforum.org). Now open

News from the art world

Best books… John Cooper Clarke • The poet and performer chooses his favourite books. His latest collection, The Luckiest Guy Alive (Picador £10.99), is out now and his memoir, I Wanna Be Yours (Picador £9.99), comes out in paperback this week

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for auction

Crenellations and moated properties

What the experts recommend

Recipe of the week • This nutritious and moreish dish can be made in minutes, says Ollie Dabbous. Feel free to add different dried fruits, spices, herbs or nuts: figs, basil, apricots or coriander would all be welcome. It’s particularly good with barbecued meat and fish dishes, especially if they have Middle Eastern flavourings.

Cannabidiol drinks

Technology: the new smartwatch challenging Apple

The best… backpacks for commuters

Tips of the week… leaving dogs home alone

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… low- or non-alcoholic beers

Record producer who gave the world reggae

Girl band member who struggled with stardom

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

UK skills shortage: dirty laundry and ideological purity

Seven days in the Square Mile

Issue of the week: back to work? • Employers are dangling...