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.

It wasn’t all bad

The Omicron variant

Tragedy in the Channel

THE WEEK

The Week

Undiplomatic relations

Child support doubled

Mass power outages

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 writer Neil Gaiman

Viewpoint: Dealing with the woke

Farewell

Qatar’s tainted World Cup • In a year’s time, the most controversial World Cup tournament in recent history will kick off in the Gulf state

The transformation of Qatar

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

Best articles: Britain

Vigilante justice: losing faith in “the system”

Afghanistan: hurtling towards famine and “ruin”

The traffic-light coalition: a new start for Germany?

What the scientists are saying…

Orangutan drawings are real art

Therapy for depression

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Labour’s reshuffle: a winning team?

Doctor Who: is she driving men to crime?

Barbados: the birth of a new republic

The Commons: no place for a baby?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

Sport

Snooker: falling asleep on the job

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Making masks mandatory

Book of the week

Novel of the week

Theatre: Manor • Lyttelton, National Theatre, London SE1 (020-3989 5455). Until 1 January Running time: 2hrs 30mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Get Back: a marathon documentary that brings the Beatles back to life

Exhibition of the week Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist • National Gallery, London WC2 (020-7747 2885, nationalgallery.org.uk). Until 27 February

News from the art world

Best books… Jon Ronson • The journalist, author and filmmaker picks his five best books about the culture wars, which form the subject of his new eight-part series, Things Fell Apart, available now on BBC Sounds and Radio 4

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Impressive Art Deco and Arts & Crafts properties

What the experts say

Recipe of the week: Flor bakery’s brown butter cakes

The best… Christmas presents for adults

Tips of the week… making small talk at parties

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… off-grid boltholes in Scotland

This week’s dream: holidays in the winter sun

A daring new opening near Amalfi

Winter in the Scilly Isles

The composer-lyricist who reshaped the American musical

The perfectionist lyricist

Charity

Companies in the news • …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

BT: a game of fantasy M&A?

Commentators

City profile

Issue of the week: the Omicron threat • The new Covid variant could be an economic game-changer – but not every scenario is negative

Making money: what the experts think

Christmas Books: I

Who’s tipping what: the week’s best buys… …and some to sell

Market summary

A “most peculiar” crime: the Mansfield murders...