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 Gray report

A warning to Russia

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The Tory tax hike

Spirit of the age

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 the journalist Lyse Doucet

Cultural decline

Farewell

The future of nuclear power? • Rolls-Royce believes that a fleet of small nuclear reactors could help solve the UK’s energy problems

How safe are nuclear reactors?

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

Politicians and the stock market: guilty of insider trading?

Best articles: International

A dangerous new development in Yemen’s “festering” war

What the scientists are saying…

Can money help babies’ brains grow?

Deadly heart condition

Gossip

The animal airlift: did the PM intervene?

Motherhood: why are we putting it off?

Spotify: a rock icon’s revolt

The Highway Code: prioritising cyclists

Wit & Wisdom

Tennis: an astonishing comeback in Melbourne

Football: the midfielder who returned from the dead

Cricket: England comes up short in the West Indies

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Who is to blame, Putin… or Nato?

Review of reviews: Books

Theatre: Dr Semmelweis • Bristol Old Vic (0117-987 7877). Until 19 February Running time: 2hrs 40mins

Podcasts… from motivational speakers to Vegas magicians

Film

The Gilded Age: Downton gets an American makeover

Exhibition of the week Francis Bacon: Man and Beast • Royal Academy, London W1 (020-7300 8090, royalacademy.org.uk). Until 17 April

Gainsborough’s Blue Boy at the National Gallery

Best books… Arabella Weir • The author and comedian chooses her five favourite books. She is performing her new show Does My Mum Loom Big in This? at London’s Southbank on Saturday 12 February (southbankcentre.co.uk)

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Best properties on the market

What the experts recommend

Recipe of the week

Wine choice

New cars: what the critics say

The best… air fryers

Tips of the week… tackling screen addiction

And for those who have everything…

The internet… photo printing services

This week’s dream: an enchanting cruise on the River Nile

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

Well-loved comedian, gag-writer and panel game stalwart

Australian socialite who walked his lion on the King’s Road

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Spotify: a question of identity

Issue of the week: the Bank of England under fire • Soaring inflation has prompted accusations of economic mismanagement

Soaring commodities: what the experts say

The power of Wordle

Commentators

City profiles

Who’s tipping what

Market summary

Supermarket revolution: the end of shopping as we know it? • A new generation of...