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 wave

War looms over Ukraine

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Clouds over No. 10

Spirit of the age

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at aglance

People

Castaway of the week • This week’s edition of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs featured the broadcaster and writer Richard Osman

Viewpoint: Long Christmas

Farewell

Best articles: Britain

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

Memorial: Putin extinguishes “Russia’s conscience”

Best articles: International

What the scientists are saying…

Insects leave DNA in the air

Probe “touches” the Sun

Ghislaine Maxwell: a socialite’s fall from grace

Gossip

Keir Starmer: prime minister in waiting?

Tony Blair: a controversial knight

Wit & Wisdom

Cricket: England’s humiliation down under

Football: Chelsea and Liverpool produce a “ragged” classic

Darts: victory for the quiet man with the mohawk

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Richard III’s game of thrones

Flying Blind

Traitor King

The Fell

Dance: Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! • Sadler’s Wells, London EC1, until 30 January, then touring (new-adventures.net) Running time: 2hrs

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

A Very British Scandal: the “Dirty Duchess” comes to the small screen

The big exhibitions of 2022: a preview • Raphael, Cézanne, Sickert, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois: this year promises plenty of big art shows

Best books… Claire Fuller • The novelist chooses her five favourite books. Her fourth novel, Unsettled Ground (Fig Tree £14.99), was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award, and is out in paperback this week

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Properties for a warmer winter

What the experts recommend

Recipe of the week: Basque cheesecake • This caramelised cheesecake is so low-fuss it’s unbelievable, says Ravneet Gill – perfect for anyone who needs to whip up a dish in a hurry. Baked high and fast, it can be eaten warm or (perhaps even better) straight from the fridge the next day. You’ll love me for introducing you to it.

The best… home gym equipment

Tips of the week… how to declutter your home

And for those who have everything…

Apps and websites… to sell your unwanted things

Magnificent hotels to discover in 2022 • From a Thai island retreat to a Jazz Age icon in Scotland, here are six hotels the travel writers are raving about

Courageous priest who fought for a rainbow nation

AFGHAN CRISIS APPEAL • ‘We’re treating malnourished children and their number is increasing…’

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Apple: the first $3trn company

Issue of the week: the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes • Could the conviction of the Theranos founder shake Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture?

Making money: what the experts think

Lexicography • Here are some of the buzzwords that seeped into business-speak in 2021 and are likely to continue to circulate this year. Compiled by The...