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 Rwanda plan

A blow to British steel

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The prayer ban

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Childcare policy “issues”

Royal Mail reforms

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 cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Viewpoint: Elite banality

Farewell

Why your local council may be going bust • Across England, local councils are suffering from grave financial problems

The decline of local democracy

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

The chosen one: how Trump won over the Christian Right

Best articles: International

Missiles, mullahs and anger in Islamabad

What the scientists are saying…

What doomed the mighty giganto?

AI crimebusting

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Bronson Battersby: a toddler’s tragic death

The Armed Forces: dangerously depleted?

The two-state solution: can it be revived?

Measles: a worrying resurgence

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: the state of play with Financial Fair Play (FFP) • Why are so many Premier League clubs – from Nottingham Forest to Manchester City – accused of breaching the regulations?

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The Rwanda distraction

Judgement at Tokyo

The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film

Wild Houses

Ballet: Manon • Royal Opera House, London WC2 (020-7304 4000). Until 8 March Running time: 2hrs 45mins

Podcasts… on mental illness, early life and culture wars

Film

The Artful Dodger: breezy Disney+ series about Dickens’s antihero

Exhibition of the week Pauline Boty: A Portrait • Gazelli Art House, London W1 (020-7491 8816, gazelliarthouse.com). Until 24 February

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

Picasso and Chagall recovered

Best books… Rowan Williams • The former Archbishop of Canterbury chooses his favourites. His latest book, Passions of the Soul (Bloomsbury £11.99) – about how the Eastern Christian tradition can help us understand the modern world – is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to streaming TV

Scottish hideaways

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: potato & leek soup with garlic croutons • My mother used to make soup on a Tuesday and serve it with cheese and pickle on a crusty baguette for dipping, says Ian Bursnall in his new book of delicious recipes for cooks on a tight budget. This one is just the thing to warm you up on a cold winter’s day.

New cars: what the critics say

The best… vacuum cleaners

Tips… how to get cheaper car insurance

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… letterbox flower delivery services

This week’s dream: an unspoiled island in the Bahamas

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

The Israeli spy...