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
More Tory turmoil
Aid for Gaza
THE WEEK
The Week
Biden comes out fighting
Spirit of the age
Good week for:
Bad week for:
Spotlight on Tory donor
Gas-fired power plants
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 playwright James Graham
Viewpoint: Enjoyable chaos
Farewell
The scramble for the Moon • Earth’s nearest neighbour is busier than it has been since the era of the Apollo landings
Asteroid mining
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
Trump’s presidential run: a bad bet for Republicans?
Best articles: International
Iran at the crossroads: have the mullahs lost their grip?
What the scientists are saying…
The sex life of the humpback whale
A billion obese people
Pick of the week’s Gossip
Farewell to May: a PM consumed by Brexit
Michelle Donelan: an expensive tweet
Stakeknife: the killer who spied for Britain
A royal mystery: the case of the altered photo
Wit & Wisdom
Statistics of the week
Rugby union: England’s “magnificent” victory
Football: the final showdown between Klopp and Guardiola
Littler achieves more darts “perfection”
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
Home truths about protest
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters
Cloistered
Until August
Musical: Starter for Ten • Bristol Old Vic (0117-987 7877). Until 30 March Running time: 2hrs 30mins
Podcasts… from the Bengal famine to new books
Film
The Gentlemen: a small screen visit to familiar Guy Ritchie territory
Exhibition of the week Angelica Kauffman • Royal Academy, London W1 (020-7300 8090, royalacademy.org.uk). Until 30 June
Where to buy… • The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery
A manga pioneer
Best books… Daisy Goodwin • The screenwriter, author and television producer chooses her favourite books with links to Maria Callas. Her new novel Diva (Aria £20), about the soprano’s love affair with Aristotle Onassis, is out this week
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
Coming up for auction
Properties with income potential
Food & Drink
Recipe of the week: nasi goreng spicy fried rice
New cars: what the critics say
The best… power banks
Tips… how to deter burglars from your home
And for those who have everything…
Where to find… the UK’s best spa towns
This week’s dream: on the trail of a Romantic icon in Germany
Getting the flavour of…
Hotel of the week
Playwright who helped end censorship in the theatre
Interior designer and late-life fashion icon
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
Nationwide/Virgin Money: a new kind of challenger
Issue of the week: the battle for the Telegraph • The ownership of the newspaper group looks wide open again. But at what cost?
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