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
Borders bill unveiled
Time to sue builders
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 fashion designer Paul Costelloe
Viewpoint: Towels, please
Farewell
Briefing The great chip shortage • Since late last year, there has been a severe shortage of microchips, which is now affecting industries across the world
The triumph of the microchip
The UK at a glance
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
The “heat dome”: sweltering in the Pacific Northwest
Best articles: International
South Africa: how the courts stood up to Jacob Zuma
What the scientists are saying…
The “last ice area” is now melting
A million long Covid cases
Pick of the week’s Gossip
China: bent on global domination?
EU migrants: five million and counting
Diana’s statue: “kitsch”, yet fitting?
Farewell, Gap: a high street staple falls
Wit & Wisdom
Statistics of the week
England at the Euros: a likeable leader’s “quiet revolution”
Tennis: the 18-year-old who has wowed Wimbledon
The youngest chess grandmaster
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
England and the Union
Review of reviews: Books
Drama & Podcasts
Film & TV
Films to stream • School and college reunions were a popular theme in films during the 1980s and 1990s, especially in the US. Here are five that have reunions as their focus:
Hemingway: another brilliant series from Ken Burns
Exhibition of the week Gustave Moreau: The Fables • Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire (01296-820414, waddesdon.org.uk). Until 17 October
News from the art world
The List
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
Coming up online
Best properties on the market
Food & Drink
Tomato and fennel fish stew with garlic and oregano bread
Consumer
New cars: what the critics say
The hawk who persuaded George Bush to invade Iraq
Companies in the news ...and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
E-sports star
Issue of the week: the battle for Morrisons • A vote of confidence in Britain? Or an unsavoury scramble by “private equity vultures”?
Inflation worries: what the experts think
Simple tax tips
Commentators
City profiles
Who’s tipping what
A Cold War tragedy: the execution of the Rosenbergs • On 19 June 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were sent to the electric chair for being Soviet spies. Sixty-eight years later, their sons are still trying to clear their mother’s name.