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

Covid inquiry announced

Pfizer jab for children

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 physicist and writer Brian Greene

Viewpoint: Moving with the times

Farewell

The rise of the influencer • Who exactly are social media influencers? And why are they always going to Dubai?

Dubai: the planet’s influencer capital

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

Best articles: International

Too few children? China’s “population crisis”

What the scientists are saying…

The hedgehog cull in New Zealand

Alcohol deaths rise 20%

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Cameron: a “humiliating spectacle”

ID for voters: a “suspicious” proposal

DUP: new leader, same bind

Prince Harry: dealing with “genetic pain”

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

Sport

Will bureaucracy kill parkrun?

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Getting to see your GP

Review of reviews: Books

Podcasts... sitting down, music, and life-altering events

Albums of the week: three new releases

Films to stream

Film & TV

The Underground Railroad: an epic vision of America

Exhibition of the week The Making of Rodin • Tate Modern, London SE1 (020-7887 8888, www.tate.org). Until 21 November

News from the art world

The List

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing and reading

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up online

Medieval homes

Food & Drink • What the experts recommend

Recipe of the week: mango salad

Consumer

The best… garden tableware

Free spirit who helped popularise the hippy trail

Hollywood actor whose career spanned eight decades

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

Seven days in the Square Mile

WarnerMedia/Discovery: the streaming arms-race continues

Issue of the week: a reckoning for Elon Musk? • The mercurial Tesla founder has abandoned bitcoin. What are the likely consequences?

Inflation hedging: what the experts think

Game on

Commentators

City profiles

Who’s tipping what

Market summary

Directors’ dealings

Form guide • Shares tipped 12 weeks ago

Market view

The Mitfords: the Kardashians of their day • Nancy Mitford’s comic novel The Pursuit of Love, newly adapted for the BBC, mythologised her family as a group of adorable oddballs. But what was the true story behind it? Iona McLaren investigates