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
Johnson’s vision
Misogyny in the Met
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The offshore billions
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 the entrepreneur and philanthropist Tom Ilube
Viewpoint: The chief’s wife
Farewell
Syria’s decade of civil war • Ten years after the first battles between Syrian government forces and the armed opposition, no resolution is in sight
The house of Assad
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
Guns, rage and murder: a “tsunami of lethal violence”
Best articles: International
Germany after Merkel: the long negotiations begin
What the scientists are saying…
Footprints into America’s prehistory
Gene-editing rules relaxed
Sarah Everard: a chilling, premeditated murder
Pick of the week’s Gossip
Brexit Britain: growing pains?
Keir Starmer: can he sway the voters?
Wit & Wisdom
Statistics of the week
Football: a “spellbinding” encounter at Anfield
London Marathon: two exceptional success stories
Racing: an outstanding German with an Italian name
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
The politics of lorry driving
Review of reviews: Books
Novel of the week
Larger than an Orange
Theatre: Dracula: The Untold Story • Leeds Playhouse until 9 Oct, then touring until 13 Nov (imitatingthedog.co.uk) Running time: 1hr 50mins
Albums of the week: three new releases
No Time to Die • Daniel Craig’s Bond goes out on a high Dir: Cary Joji Fukunaga 2hrs 43mins (12A)
The Guilty • Jake Gyllenhaal impresses as a 911 call handler Dir: Antoine Fuqua 1hr 30mins (15)
Getting Away with Murder(s) • Sober call for accountability after the Holocaust Dir: David Nicholas Wilkinson 2hrs 55mins (15)
AFGHAN CRISIS APPEAL • “Fighting in Afghanistan had been intense since May, but in August the situation got progressively worse.”
Exhibition of the week Summer Exhibition 2021 • Royal Academy, London W1 (020-7300 8090, royalacademy.org.uk). Until 2 January 2022
News from the art world
Give THE WEEK this Christmas
Best books… Peter Hain
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television Programmes
Coming up for auction
Houses mentioned by Pevsner
What the experts recommend
Recipe of the week
Which wines last longest?
New cars: what the critics say
The best… water carbonators
How to… grow herbs for winter
And for those who have everything…
Where to find… clifftop hotels in the UK
This week’s dream: a trek through the mountains of Wyoming
Hotel of the week
Getting the flavour of…
Affable film director who made Notting Hill
French tycoon who went to jail for match fixing
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Supermarket sweep: Morrisons taken private
Seven days in the Square Mile
Issue of the week: Facebook under scrutiny...