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

A constitutional clash

Teachers’ strike looms

THE WEEK

The Week

The NHS – diagnosis?

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Protest powers bill

Food prices still rising

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 the broadcaster Gabby Logan

Viewpoint: Institutional deference

Farewell

Taming the internet • The deeply controversial Online Safety Bill could change the face of the web in the UK

Online laws around the world

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

A doomed village, a coal mine and 35,000 protesters

Macron’s make-or-break pensions plan

Best of the American columnists

The case of the classified documents: is Biden in big trouble?

What the scientists are saying…

A cautionary tale for swimmers

Cancer vaccine trial

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Spare: “an extended act of therapy”?

The Ukraine War: a “frozen” conflict

David Carrick: the rapist in the Met

The anti-vax MP: should he be silenced?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: Manchester United start dreaming again

Rugby union: Eddie Jones returns to haunt England

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Shamima Begum: villain or victim?

Spare

All Sorts of Lives

The New Life

Podcasts… on Begum, cryogenics and royal ructions

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

The US and the Holocaust: Ken Burns’s masterful documentary

Exhibition of the week Chris Killip: Retrospective • The Photographers’ Gallery, London W1 (020-7087 9300, thephotographersgallery.org.uk). Until 19 February

Where to buy… • The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery

Banksy and the fly-tippers

Best books… Pico Iyer • The travel writer, novelist and essayist chooses his favourite books. His own latest book, The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World, is published this week by Bloomsbury at £16.99

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for sale

Houses in market towns

What the experts say

Two hearty brunches in just one paragraph each

New cars: what the critics say

The best… vacuum flasks

How to… sleep better

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… the UK’s best heated outdoor pools

This week’s dream: a tough new ski route in the high Alps

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

The virtuoso known as “the guitarists’ guitarist”

Only child of “The King”, who followed him into music

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

UK retail: the high street’s last stand?

Issue of the week: the revival of Davos • The World Economic forum faces an uphill struggle to prove its relevance

Metals melt-up: what the experts think

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