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.
Cities under siege: Russia’s campaign intensifies
The war on truth
Sanctions take their toll
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The Week UK
The refugee crisis
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 Strictly Come Dancing’s Oti Mabuse
Octoculture • Plans for the world’s first octopus farm, in the Canary Islands, have stirred an ethical debate
The Animal Sentience Committee
IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids
Best articles: Britain
Biden’s high-profile speech: flunking the Churchill test
Taiwan and Ukraine: an ominous parallel?
What the scientists are saying…
Dogs grieve for their dead friends
Ethnic disparities in cancer
Russia’s war: the “living hell” in Ukraine’s cities
A “Potemkin army”: Moscow’s troubled campaign
Oligarchs: punishing the billionaires
President Putin: can he be toppled?
Wit & Wisdom
Cricket: the remarkable career of an Australian superstar
Football: any takers for Chelsea Football Club?
Pick of the week’s correspondence
Review of reviews: Books
Theatre: The Merchant of Venice • Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe (020-7401 9919). Until 9 April Running time: 2hrs 10mins
Podcasts… the war in Ukraine, and Covid conspiracies
Film
The Dropout: a Silicon Valley morality tale
Exhibition of the week Surrealism Beyond Borders • Tate Modern, London SE1 (020-7887 8888, tate.org.uk). Until 29 August
News from the art world
Best books… Helen Edmundson • The award-winning playwright and screenwriter chooses her five favourite books. Her acclaimed adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel Small Island runs at the National Theatre until 30 April (nationaltheatre.org.uk)
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: mother’s “famous butter chicken” • Nothing reminds me more of my childhood than coming home to the smell of my amazing mum preparing her “famous butter chicken”, says Kalpna Woolf’s son, Ben. With tender chicken pieces in a perfectly balanced spicy yet creamy sauce, it’s a dish to warm your stomach and your heart.
Consumer
This week’s dream: the beaches of the Albanian Riviera
Hotel of the week
Getting the flavour of…
Last-minute offers from top travel companies
Obituaries
Companies in the news • …and how they were assessed
En+/Polymetal: end of the line for “the Caviar Express”
Seven days in the Square Mile
Issue of the week: the oil and commodities shock • Fears of shortages and soaring prices are roiling markets globally, with no let up in sight
ESG and the war: what the pundits say
Time to plug in?
Commentators
City profile
Shares
The canoe man: the untold story of what John Darwin did next • Twenty years after paddling out into the North Sea to fake his own death – deceiving even his own family – John Darwin now lives a quiet life in the Philippines. Gordon Rayner reports
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