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

Omicron optimism

The big squeeze

THE WEEK

The Week

Garden party politics

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 broadcaster and writer Simon Reeve

Viewpoint: Phone signals

Farewell

The unvaccinated • There is growing frustration with the minority of people who have yet to receive their Covid-19 jabs. Who are these people?

Getting tough on the hesitant

Best articles: Britain

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

The Capitol Hill riot: an assault on US democracy

Best of the American columnists

Beijing’s “zero-Covid” policy: a dangerous dead end?

Uprising in Kazakhstan: the rage against the autocracy

What the scientists are saying…

Goldfish can navigate a room

Prostate cancer treatment

Gossip

The Colston case: was justice served?

The cladding scandal: help at last?

Novak Djokovic: a Covid scapegoat?

Pope Francis: pets vs. babies

Wit & Wisdom

Football: Cambridge topple “the world’s richest club”

Cricket: a miraculous escape for England in Sydney

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Have juries had their day?

The Sinner and the Saint

Free

To Paradise

Podcasts… US politics, Tove Janssen and riveting history

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Anne: ITV’s Hillsborough drama is almost too painful to watch

Exhibition of the week Lubaina Himid • Tate Modern, London SE1 (020-7887 8888, tate.org.uk). Until 3 July

News from the art world

Best books… Michael Ignatieff • The Canadian writer and philosopher chooses his favourite books (“apart from Tolstoy, Cervantes, Stendhal and more”). His latest, On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times (Picador £16.99), is published this week

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Rural hideaways

What the experts say

Recipe of the week • Inspired by the nutty spice of the much-loved satay, I use whole peanuts to bring a new level of creamy crunch to this dish, says Kwoklyn Wan.

Drink trends for 2022

New cars: what the critics say

The best… home printers

Tips of the week… online workouts from home

And for those who have everything…

Food online… top picks from chefs and foodies

This week’s dream: a hikers’ paradise in northwest Greece

The Maybourne Riviera, Côte d’Azur, France

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

The Oscar-winning matinee idol who broke down barriers

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Strange pitch

Issue of the week: business and energy • Is a windfall tax really the answer to the acute pain of energy costs?

House prices: what the experts think

Nothing ventured… • Fourteen years after writing my first Adventurous Investor column, “I’m still here on the frontiers of investment,” says David Stevenson in FT Money. Here...