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.

Back to lockdown: the challenge ahead

It wasn’t all bad

Rolling out the vaccines

New strains, new anxieties

THE WEEK

The Week

Is Brexit done?

Spirit of the age

Good week for

Bad week for

The cladding trap

Inequality post-Covid

Poll watch

The UK at a glance

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 president of the Army Officer Selection Board, Colonel Lucy Giles

Viewpoint: Love in the time of corona

Farewell

The war on traffic • In cities across Britain, hundreds of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods were introduced last year – and they’re causing an almighty row

Twenty minutes to utopia?

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids

Best articles: International

The crushing weight of Chinese Covid censorship

What the scientists are saying...

Hares are wearing the wrong coats

Oxygen test unreliable

Gossip

The Union: doomed by Brexit?

The EU: cosying up to China

Julian Assange: a surprising victory

Erasmus: an expensive rite of passage

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Darts: the “pantomime villain” turns into a superstar

Football: Solskjær starts to make his mark at United

Not such a happy New Year for sport?

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Keeping a clear head

Review of reviews: Books

Mozart

Novel of the week

Podcasts... from early sound to prime ministers

Albums of the week: three new releases

Films to stream

Film and TV

The Serpent: serial murder on the Asian hippy trail

The big exhibitions of 2021: a preview • After the closures and cancellations of 2020, this year – Covid permitting – promises a wide range of major exhibitions

Best books… Carmen Callil • The publisher and writer chooses five novels that inspired Oh Happy Day: Those Times and These Times (Jonathan Cape £18.99), her account of the lives of her great-great-grandparents in early 19th century England

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

The Archers: what happened last week

Coming up online

Fabulous French ski chalets

Food & Drink

Lockdown innovation and culinary fizz

Good-value pinot noir

Consumer

The best... affordable home exercise kit

Obituaries

Companies in the news • ...and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Entain/MGM Resorts: the American takeover of gambling

Issue of the week: New year, new Britain? • A trade deal with the European Union is finally in the bag – but for many UK companies, a corona cliff-edge looms

Bitcoin: what the experts think

Winners and losers

Commentators

City profiles

Who’s tipping what

Market summary

Directors’ dealings

Form guide • Shares tipped 11 Jan 2020

Market view

“Is anybody in there?” Life as a locked-in patient • A brain injury left Jake Haendel trapped in his own body, unable to move or speak but fully conscious. What was it like, asks Josh...