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:

Two-tier asylum system

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 writer Maggie O’Farrell

Viewpoint: Learning from the impostor

Farewell

The Deliveroo revolution • Online food delivery platforms such as Deliveroo and Uber Eats have changed the way millions eat. But at what cost?

Dark kitchens: the future of food?

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

Biden in hiding: why won’t he face the press?

Best articles: International

Germany’s “super election year”: all change ahead?

What the scientists are saying...

A computer from the first century BC

Jab may ease long Covid

Gossip

The policing bill: a threat to democracy?

Defence: the plan to shrink the Army

British schools: tackling “rape culture”

Waving the flag: a sign of desperation?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Rugby union: Wales sparkle, England limp

Sporting headlines

A dark shadow over the “beautiful game”

An Indian masterclass

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Re-evaluating Churchill

Review of reviews: Books

Podcasts... painful mistakes and extraordinary people

Albums of the week: three new releases

Films to stream

Film & TV

The critics drifting off to la-la land

Burning Banksys and flying cats: the crypto-art craze

News from the art world

The List

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

The Archers: what happened last week

Coming up for sale

Best properties on the market • Grade I and II properties

Food & Drink • What the experts recommend

Recipe of the week: burrata with asparagus, pangrattato and sage

Consumer

The best… garden accessories

Charismatic actor who starred in Alien and Homicide

The Dutch engineer who invented the cassette tape

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

Seven days in the Square Mile

Deliveroo: giant helpings in London’s biggest float

Issue of the week: the fallout from the Greensill affair • The complex financial saga raises serious questions about political cronyism

Making money: what the experts think

Key lessons from Woodford • The fallout from Britain’s biggest financial scandal for a decade has yet to reach a satisfactory conclusion for Neil Woodford’s investors – more than 300,000 are still waiting to recoup their money. But the affair has at least taught us something. Owen Walker outlined the most important caveats in the FT:

Commentators

City profiles

Who’s tipping what

Market summary

Directors’ dealings

Form guide

Market view

A boxer’s search for revenge • When Callum Hancock was ten years old, he was abused by a teenager on his council estate. At 21, he became a professional boxer – and sought revenge. Here, he tells Ben...