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.
Bracing for war
Johnson in peril
It wasn’t all bad
THE WEEK
The Week
Westminster’s bully boys
£4.3bn fraud write-off
Covid restrictions eased
Spirit of the age
Good week for:
Bad week for:
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 businessman John Caudwell
The joy of litter-picking
Farewell
Bloody Sunday • Fifty years ago, on 30 January 1972, 13 people were shot dead by British soldiers during a march in Londonderry
Prosecuting the soldiers
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
Anti-Semitism in America: a case of double standards?
Best articles: International
Tonga’s tsunami: the aid effort turns political
What the scientists are saying…
An implant that might ease arthritis
A&E waits raise death risk
Pick of the week’s Gossip
Nusrat Ghani: the Tories and Islamophobia
Plan B: was it lifted too soon?
Cost of living: the squeeze continues
Train announcements: the end of the line?
Wit & Wisdom
Football: Chelsea make it four against Spurs
Tennis: the British renaissance falters down under
Commentary box
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
The human limitations of a PM
Review of reviews: Books
Musical: Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Albums of the week: three new releases
Film
Trigger Point: Jed Mercurio’s preposterous but riveting new drama
Exhibition of the week Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty • Dulwich Picture Gallery, London SE21 (020-8693 5254, dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk). Until 18 April
Where to buy… • The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery
A farmhouse Henry Moore
Best books… David Sumpter • The writer and mathematician chooses his six favourite books. He is the author of 2016’s Soccermatics and his new book, The Ten Equations that Rule the World (Allen Lane £9.99), is out now in paperback
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
New to subscription TV
Best properties on the market • Houses around the UK average of £270,000
What the experts recommend
Two North African dips
Exciting new vehicles to look out for in 2022
Tips of the week… driving safely in cold weather
And for those who have everything…
Where to find… ultra sporting challenges
This week’s dream: Uruguay’s bohemian beach towns
Hotel of the week
Getting the flavour of…
Last-minute offers from top travel companies
The actor and singer who made Bat Out of Hell • Meat Loaf 1947-2022
Flamboyant journalist who “lived for beauty and style” • André Leon Talley 1948-2022
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
Brewing row
Issue of the week: the tumult in markets • The party is finally drawing to an end, it seems. How big will the bust be?
Tackling energy bills: what the pundits say
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