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The Week UK

V. 1350
Magazine

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.

It wasn’t all bad

A new alliance

The gas crisis

THE WEEK

The Week

Clearing the dead wood

Spirit of the age

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 former judge Baroness Hale of Richmond

Viewpoint: Next weekend

Farewell

The new Yacht Britannia • Boris Johnson wants a new “national flagship” for Britain. Is it a good idea?

Britannia: the original national flagship

The UK at a glance

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

Trump, China and the general: an act of treachery?

Best articles: International

The Korean arms race: the limits of missile diplomacy

What the scientists are saying…

Camel carvings older than Stonehenge

NHS blood test trial begins

Gossip

AUKUS: the rift with France

Facebook: is it “monetising misery”?

Dorries: a minister for the culture wars?

TalkTV: Murdoch’s challenge to GB News

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: the greatest striker ever seen in the English game

Rugby union: Saracens’ triumphant return

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

A royal embarrassment?

Review of reviews: Books

Musical: Back to the Future • Adelphi Theatre, London WC2 (backtothefuturemusical.com). Until 13 February Running time: 2hrs 40mins

Podcasts… food, the Theranos trial, and 9/11

Films to stream • This year saw the release of a Las Vegas-set zombie blockbuster, Army of the Dead. Here are five other compelling zombie films.

New releases

Help: poignant and angry drama, set in a care home

Exhibition of the week Lucian Freud: Real Lives • Tate Liverpool, Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool (0151-702 7400, tate.org.uk). Until 16 January 2022

News from the art world

Best books… Simon Thurley • The architectural historian and former head of English Heritage chooses his five favourite books. His latest, Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court (William Collins £25), is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to subscription TV

Colourful houses

What the experts recommend

Saffron panna cotta pots and poached pears • Saffron is one of my favourite spices and panna cotta is one of my all-time favourite desserts, says Bettina Campolucci Bordi. So why not marry those two together? The poached pear cuts through the creaminess and adds an additional layer of colour.

New cars: what the critics say

The best… SAD lamps • Scientific evidence is mixed, but some people find that exposure to artificial sunlight boosts their mood and energy levels in the winter months

Tips of the week… post-Covid dinner parties

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… kayaking trips with a pub pit stop

Computer pioneer who was ridiculed for his electric tricycle • Sir Clive Sinclair 1940-2021

Artist and empathetic matriarch of the Johnson clan • Charlotte Johnson Wahl 1942-2021

Companies in the news...


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Frequency: Weekly Pages: 64 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: V. 1350

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: September 24, 2021

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OverDrive Magazine

subjects

News & Politics

Languages

English

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.

It wasn’t all bad

A new alliance

The gas crisis

THE WEEK

The Week

Clearing the dead wood

Spirit of the age

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 former judge Baroness Hale of Richmond

Viewpoint: Next weekend

Farewell

The new Yacht Britannia • Boris Johnson wants a new “national flagship” for Britain. Is it a good idea?

Britannia: the original national flagship

The UK at a glance

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

Trump, China and the general: an act of treachery?

Best articles: International

The Korean arms race: the limits of missile diplomacy

What the scientists are saying…

Camel carvings older than Stonehenge

NHS blood test trial begins

Gossip

AUKUS: the rift with France

Facebook: is it “monetising misery”?

Dorries: a minister for the culture wars?

TalkTV: Murdoch’s challenge to GB News

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: the greatest striker ever seen in the English game

Rugby union: Saracens’ triumphant return

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

A royal embarrassment?

Review of reviews: Books

Musical: Back to the Future • Adelphi Theatre, London WC2 (backtothefuturemusical.com). Until 13 February Running time: 2hrs 40mins

Podcasts… food, the Theranos trial, and 9/11

Films to stream • This year saw the release of a Las Vegas-set zombie blockbuster, Army of the Dead. Here are five other compelling zombie films.

New releases

Help: poignant and angry drama, set in a care home

Exhibition of the week Lucian Freud: Real Lives • Tate Liverpool, Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool (0151-702 7400, tate.org.uk). Until 16 January 2022

News from the art world

Best books… Simon Thurley • The architectural historian and former head of English Heritage chooses his five favourite books. His latest, Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court (William Collins £25), is out now

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to subscription TV

Colourful houses

What the experts recommend

Saffron panna cotta pots and poached pears • Saffron is one of my favourite spices and panna cotta is one of my all-time favourite desserts, says Bettina Campolucci Bordi. So why not marry those two together? The poached pear cuts through the creaminess and adds an additional layer of colour.

New cars: what the critics say

The best… SAD lamps • Scientific evidence is mixed, but some people find that exposure to artificial sunlight boosts their mood and energy levels in the winter months

Tips of the week… post-Covid dinner parties

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… kayaking trips with a pub pit stop

Computer pioneer who was ridiculed for his electric tricycle • Sir Clive Sinclair 1940-2021

Artist and empathetic matriarch of the Johnson clan • Charlotte Johnson Wahl 1942-2021

Companies in the news...


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