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.

The main stories… …and how they were covered

THE WEEK

The Week

Politics

Spirit of the age

Good week for

Bad week for

Police records deleted

No daily tests in schools

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 Samantha Power, author and former US ambassador to the UN

Viewpoint: The lockdown minestrone

Farewell

The “little girl” who makes the weather • La Niña is one of the major drivers of the Earth’s climate system; since last autumn, this phenomenon has been under way in the Pacific

The world’s air-conditioning system

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

Money talks: corporate America turns on Trump

Uganda’s election: Bobi Wine takes on the big man

Strike down the cruel “love jihad” laws • Al Jazeera (Doha)

Le Pen’s populist identity crisis • Der Standard (Vienna)

The nightmare of creeping anglicisation • El País (Madrid)

New research on extraordinary animals

Identical twins are not so identical after all

Glimmers of hope in the pandemic

Gossip

The virus: did it leak from a lab?

Bitcoin: more than just a bubble?

Brexit: empty shelves in Northern Ireland

Sex and the City : a blast from the 1990s

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

Cricket: England in good shape for a hectic year

Tennis: the rift between the sport’s haves and have-nots

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Is it wise to impeach Trump?

Review of reviews: Books

Podcasts... actors, famous siblings and conmen

Albums of the week: three new releases

Films to stream

Film and TV

The Great: Channel 4’s bawdy historical romp

Artist of the week: Albrecht Dürer

News from the art world

The List

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

The Archers: what happened last week

Coming up online

Grade II properties under £1m

Food trends to look out for in 2021

Two store cupboard recipes by Georgia Levy

Consumer

New cars: what the critics say

The best… running shoes

Influential record producer who was convicted of murder

The literary agent who “discovered” J.K. Rowling

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

Seven days in the Square Mile

Wrong signal

Issue of the week: headed for inflation? • After a decade in which economies have fought deflation, the pendulum is swinging the other way. What are the risks?

Making money: what the experts think

Sporting rivals

Commentators

City profile

Who’s tipping what

Market summary

Directors’ dealings

Form guide

Market view

Noël Coward’s adventures in the supernatural • Noël Coward satirised spiritualism in Blithe Spirit – his classic comedy that has once again been adapted for the screen, to scathing reviews (see page 31). But as Jake Kerridge reports, the playwright owed his show business...