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
The PM’s bad week
Europe’s Covid surge
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The Channel migrants
NHS waiting list rise
Vehicle charging points
Spirit of the age
Good week for:
Bad week for:
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 dressage rider Carl Hester
Viewpoint: Gender confusion
Farewell
Norway: climate hypocrite? • The Scandinavian nation has world-beating green credentials – but it is also a fossil fuel giant
Beating the resource curse
I read it in the tabloids
Best articles: Britain
The vice-presidency: is Harris making a hash of it?
Explosions in space: a Russian show of strength
Best articles: International
What the scientists are saying…
Do birds create mini “crime scenes”?
Pregnancy deaths
The Tories’ rail plan: selling out the North?
Pick of the week’s Gossip
Kyle Rittenhouse: the acquittal of a vigilante
Racism in cricket: a systemic problem
Wit & Wisdom
Sport
Tennis: Zverev triumphs in season’s finale
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
WFH: a middle-class scam?
Book of the week
Novel of the week
Theatre: The Wife of Willesden • Kiln Theatre, London NW6 (020-7328 1000). Until 15 January Running time: 1hr 40mins
Podcasts… culture wars, cops and cooking
Film
Empire State of Mind: a painful exploration of racism in Britain
Exhibition of the week Courtauld Gallery Reopening • Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, London WC2 (020-3947 7777, courtauld.ac.uk). Now open to the public
News from the art world
Best books… Andrew Mitchell • The Tory MP and former international development secretary chooses his favourite books related to parliament. His memoir, Beyond a Fringe: Tales from a Reformed Establishment Lackey (Biteback £20), is out now
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
Coming up for auction
Listed properties under £800,000
What the experts recommend
Recipe of the week • Everyone needs a good tandoori recipe up their sleeve, says Nisha Katona. Most home cooks don’t have a tandoor – a traditional clay oven – but that’s fine: these chops are superb under the grill, in the oven or on the barbecue.
New-wave claret
New cars: what the critics say
The best… massage guns
How to… be a good present giver
And for those who have everything…
Best apps… for frequent flyers
This week’s dream: at home with Zimbabwe’s painted wolves
B&B of the week
Getting the flavour of…
Last-minute offers from top travel companies
Independent-minded aristocrat who married a prime minister
Bestselling writer of ripping yarns set in Africa
Companies in the news • …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
AO ouch
Commentators
City profiles
Issue of the week: why did Bulb flicker out? • The energy crisis has claimed its largest scalp to date. Is the market irretrievably...