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.

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Preparing for Cop26

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Setting the NHS to rights

Spirit of the age

Sunak’s Budget

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 philosopher Michael Sandel

Viewpoint: The Dorian Gray app

Farewell

China’s unfinished civil war • Taiwan is seen by China as a breakaway province, which must be reunited with the motherland. Could this lead to war?

What would happen if China invaded?

Best articles: Britain

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

Best articles: Europe

Poland vs. Brussels: a game of “Russian roulette”

The Great Resignation: America’s job revolution

Haiti: misery, murder and kidnap in the Caribbean

What the scientists are saying…

An “invisible veil” for paintings

Good results for French jab

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Assisted dying: an agonising debate

Net zero: thorny path to a green future

Dirty rivers: addressing the sewage scandal

Needle spiking: the nightclub scare

Wit & Wisdom

Football: Manchester United’s humiliating defeat

F1: Hamilton’s hopes of saving title fade in Texas

Cricket: Pakistan overcomes its World Cup curse

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Exchange of the week

Noble Ambitions

My Unapologetic Diaries

Novel of the week

Theatre: Wuthering Heights

Podcasts… from supernatural encounters to the BBC

Film

Four Hours at the Capitol: inside the insurrection

Exhibition of the week Sickert: A Life in Art • Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (0151-478 4199, liverpoolmuseums.org.uk). Until 27 February 2022

Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting • at Annely Juda Fine Art

Amal’s long walk

Best books… Bobby Gillespie • The songwriter and lead singer of Primal Scream chooses his five favourite books. His memoir, Tenement Kid (White Rabbit £20), is out now. He will be taking part in the Hay Festival Winter Weekend (hayfestival.com)

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Coming up for sale

Best properties on the market

What the experts say

Spiced yoghurt soup (Gujarati kadhi)

Technology: Sky unveils its first TV set

The best… espresso machines

Tips of the week… how to paint a ceiling

And for those who have everything…

Where to… hop on a European sleeper-train

This week’s dream: cycling through timeless Transylvania

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

American hero with a “painful” blot on his record

Songwriter who won an Oscar for Doctor Dolittle

The early bird gets THE WEEK

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Tesla: the newest member of the Trillion-Dollar club

Seven days in the Square Mile

Issue of the week: a Budget for optimism? • The Chancellor has chosen “to invest” rather than “retrench”. Can Britain afford it?

Home equity release: what the experts...