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.

Back from the brink?

The Met in turmoil

THE WEEK

The Week

The Prosecco Squad

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 actress and dancer Leslie Caron

The cables that connect the world • The global network of undersea communications cables is a technological marvel – but it’s also very vulnerable

The first transatlantic cable

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

Best articles: Britain

The Capitol attack investigation: splitting the Republicans

Ottawa under siege: the truckers’ revolt

What the scientists are saying…

Implants help the paralysed walk again

Cancer survival rates

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Brexit: in search of opportunities

Covid-19: is the pandemic over?

Prince Andrew: vindication for his accuser?

Country manners: “be nice and share”

Wit & Wisdom

Winter Olympics: heavy snowfall disrupts the Games

Football: Man United’s Rangnick revival fails to materialise

Golf: beer cans stop play

Pick of the week’s correspondence

One Party After Another

Control

A Previous Life

Theatre: The Chairs • Almeida Theatre, London N1 (020-7359 4404). Until 5 March Running time: 1hr 45mins (approx.)

Podcasts… insights into dating, and more Stephen Fry

Film

This is Going to Hurt: Ben Whishaw shines in a gory medical comedy

Exhibition of the week Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child • Hayward Gallery, London SE1 (020-3879 9555, southbankcentre.co.uk). Until 15 May

News from the art world

Best books… Merryn Somerset Webb • The commentator and editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek chooses five books on late capitalism. Her book Share Power: How Ordinary People Can Change the Way That Capitalism Works – and Make Money Too is out now

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

Consumer

This week’s dream: New Mexico’s glorious hot springs

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

Genial polymath who hosted University Challenge

Playback singer known as the Nightingale of India

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

NatWest et al: back in the money

Issue of the week: Ukraine and the markets • The immediate shock might be transitory, but the economic fall-out wouldn’t be

The NFT bonanza: what the papers say

Digging deep

Commentators

City profiles

Shares

The night the National Gallery lost a masterpiece • The theft of Francisco de Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington in 1961 caused a sensation. Four years later a retired taxi driver confessed to the heist and was sent to jail. Martin Fletcher reveals who the real thief was – and how he stole the portrait

Crossword

Charity of the week