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 collapse of SVB
The migrant deal
THE WEEK
The Week
One-nil to Lineker
Spirit of the age
Good week for:
Bad week for:
Hunt’s Budget
More strike action
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 businesswoman Amanda Blanc
Viewpoint: Historical parallels
Farewell
The 15-minute city • Fans of the fashionable urban theory say that it promises a better way of life – but opponents see something more sinister
Oxford: the 15-minute front line
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
Fox News: is the network lying to its viewers?
Best articles: International
Tunisia: the nail in the coffin of the Arab Spring
What the scientists are saying…
An extra limb, to help with the chores
Space junk warning
Pick of the week’s Gossip
Aukus: the UK’s new nuclear deal
The “skinny jab”: a quick fix for obesity?
HS2: another embarrassing delay
Sex education: a new moral panic?
Wit & Wisdom
Statistic of the week
Rugby union: France hand woeful England a “record thumping”
Football: why Arteta’s Arsenal are “champions-elect”
Commentary box
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
Claiming asylum
The Earth Transformed
Paradise Now
Queen K
Theatre: The Comedy of Errors (more or less) • Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot, until 25 March; then SJT, Scarborough Running time: 2hrs 40mins
Podcasts…from insightful interviews to diverting trivia
Film
David Attenborough’s Wild Isles: Life on Earth meets Wind in the Willows
Exhibition of the week Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean • The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (01223-333230, fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk). Until 4 June
Where to buy… • The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery
A rediscovered Brueghel
Best books… Eleanor Catton • The Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries picks her favourite books. She is talking about her new novel, Birnam Wood (Granta, £20), on 1 April at the Oxford Literary Festival (oxfordliteraryfestival.org)
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
New to subscription TV
Houses in conservation areas
What the experts recommend
Recipe of the week
To keep or not?
Bugatti’s Chiron Super Sport: “a hypercar like no other”
The best… saucepan sets
Tips of the week… how to save water
And for those who have everything…
Where to find… the best tinned fish online
This week’s dream: the wild beauty of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hotel of the week
Getting the flavour of…
Last-minute offers from top travel companies
Former Labour supporter who became Thatcher’s confidant
Israeli actor beloved for his role in Fiddler on the Roof
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
SVB fallout: Project Yeti secures start-up Britain
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