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.

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THE WEEK

The Week

Brexit revisited

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

IndyRef2 verdict

Christmas disruption

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 Professor Jean Golding, epidemiologist

Viewpoint: Capitalists in shorts

Farewell

H5N1: the global bird killer • A devastating outbreak of avian influenza threatens disaster for Britain’s wild birds and for poultry farmers

The threat to the Christmas meal

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Ron DeSantis: could he really beat Trump?

Best articles: International

Europe’s refugee crisis: Italy and France accuse each other

What the scientists are saying…

Nasa’s Moon mission finally blasts off

Would you break your legs to get taller?

Qatar’s World Cup: a failed exercise in sportswashing?

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Awaab Ishak: a death to shame the nation

Population growth: the day of eight billion

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: a “sublime” victory for Southgate’s team

Rugby union: England earn an “improbable” draw

Djokovic puts a difficult year behind him

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Reality TV: modern bear-baiting?

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

Novelist as a Vocation

Bournville

Podcasts: on football, Fifa and the World Cup

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

The English: Emily Blunt excels in a bloody saga of frontier life

Exhibition of the week Turner Prize 2022 • Tate Liverpool (0151-702 7400, tate.org.uk). Until 19 March

Bigger & Closer: Hockney goes immersive

Best books… Dominic Dromgoole • The theatre director and writer chooses his favourite books. His latest book, Astonish Me! First Nights That Changed the World is out now, published by Profile Books at £20

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for auction

Windmills and watermills

Six of the best restaurants with rooms in the UK

Jacob Kenedy’s tagliolini with butter and truffle • The large amount of butter and egg yolk in this dish does make it rich, says Jacob Kenedy. But that is why it’s so great. It is a version of a Piedmont recipe, tajarin al tartufo – my adaptation being that I like to serve it with a poached egg yolk on top.

A finely balanced source

New cars: what the critics say

The best… robot vacuum cleaners

Tips of the week… travel mistakes to avoid

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… Britain’s oldest city farms

This week’s dream: birdwatching in southern Colombia

Port Hotel Eastbourne

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

East Ender who was in the original cast of EastEnders

Pioneering motoring correspondent who presented Top Gear

Companies in the news …and how they were...