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.

The MPs’ revolt: can Johnson recover?

It wasn’t all bad

Omicron’s threat

The “partygate” probe

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A winter war?

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

Assange extradition

Bird flu outbreak

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 screenwriter Jack Thorne

Viewpoint: The need to socialise

Farewell

The road to the £3 chicken • A chicken today costs a fraction of its price 50 years ago. Have we gone too far in our search for cheap meat?

The Chicken of Tomorrow

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best articles: Britain

School shootings: should parents be held responsible?

The Olympic boycott: a small gesture of condemnation

What the scientists are saying…

Life is thriving on the Garbage Patch

Covid pill trial under way

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Sex and the City: did we need a reboot?

Declining births: will civilisation crumble?

Afghanistan: the Foreign Office’s “failure”

Rod Liddle: culture war in Durham

Wit & Wisdom

Statistic of the week

Formula 1: Verstappen snatches Hamilton’s crown

Cricket: a bumpy start for England down under

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Attacking a right-wing party

Books of the year • The critics’ top eight choices based on Christmas selections in national newspapers, the London Evening Standard, The Spectator and the New Statesman

Theatre: The Play What I Wrote • Birmingham Rep (0121-236 4455). Until 1 January, then touring Running time: 1hr 50mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Landscapers: a true-life murder served up as audacious entertainment

Give THE WEEK this Christmas

Exhibition of the week Life Between Islands • Tate Britain, London SW1 (020-7887 8888, tate.org.uk). Until 3 April

News from the art world

Best books… Rory Kinnear • The Olivier Award-winning actor chooses his favourite books. He stars in BBC2’s Christmas ghost story The Mezzotint, on 24 December, and is currently in a new stage adaptation of Force Majeure (see below)

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Best properties on the market

Food & Drink • Nine of the best food books from 2021

Consumer • Stocking-fillers for kids

Tips of the week… how to reduce car running costs

And for those who have everything…

Websites… with pre-Christmas delivery

Three interesting places to ski this winter

Cambodia’s temples and beaches

Hotel of the week • Callow Hall, Derbyshire

Italian arthouse director who became a sensation in the US

The serious songwriter who found fame with The Monkees

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

NatWest: a failure to apply the smell test

Seven days in the Square Mile

Issue of the week: winter blues • How much damage is Omicron likely to do to the UK economy?

Making money: what the experts...