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

The high-tax Tories

Raducanu’s triumph

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The Week

The winter plan

Spirit of the age

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 cricketer and commentator Michael Holding

Viewpoint: Corporate supervillains

Farewell

The women of Greenham Common • A peace camp first established in Berkshire 40 years ago became the largest women’s protest since the suffragettes

The legacy of Greenham

The UK at a glance

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

“A default president at the helm of a middling administration”

Best articles: International

Brazil’s president: is he preparing to steal the election?

What the scientists are saying…

How whales learn their songs

Embryos frozen for 55 years

9/11: a day that changed the world

Gossip

Migrant boats: should they be pushed back?

Social care reforms: a “sticking plaster”?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Tennis: Emma Raducanu’s glorious victory

Gaelic football: the “Mayo curse” strikes again

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Working-class credentials

Review of reviews: Books

Musical: Frozen • Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London WC2 (frozenthemusical.co.uk) Running time: 2hrs 15mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Films to stream

New releases

Grenfell: The Untold Story

Exhibition of the week Mixing it Up: Painting Today • Hayward Gallery, London SE1 (020-3879 9555, southbankcentre.co.uk). Until 12 December

News from the art world

Best books… Justine Picardie • The writer and journalist chooses her five favourite books about women, fashion and the Second World War. Her new book, Miss Dior (Faber £25) – about the designer’s sister, a heroine of the Resistance – is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for sale

Stylish flats

What the experts recommend

Recipe of the week: butterscotch apple crumble • Apple crumble is the staple of British desserts, says Poppy O’Toole. It’s good just as it comes, but I think I’ve unlocked the next level in the game of crumbles by including butterscotch, which cuts through the tartness

New cars: what the critics say

The best… portable heaters

Tips of the week… how to grow figs in a pot

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… farm shops near cities

Star of the New Wave who preferred “adventure” movies • Jean-Paul Belmondo 1933-2021

Brilliant actor who found fame in The Wire • Michael K. Williams 1966-2021

Companies in the news… and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

EasyJet/Wizz: battle for air supremacy

Issue of the week: the gas crunch • High gas prices are creating chaos in energy markets – and Britain is particularly vulnerable

The Future Fund: what the experts think

Birth plan • Thinking of starting a business, asked Harriet...