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 Gray report
A warning to Russia
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The Week
The Tory tax hike
Spirit of the age
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 the journalist Lyse Doucet
Cultural decline
Farewell
The future of nuclear power? • Rolls-Royce believes that a fleet of small nuclear reactors could help solve the UK’s energy problems
How safe are nuclear reactors?
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
Politicians and the stock market: guilty of insider trading?
Best articles: International
A dangerous new development in Yemen’s “festering” war
What the scientists are saying…
Can money help babies’ brains grow?
Deadly heart condition
Gossip
The animal airlift: did the PM intervene?
Motherhood: why are we putting it off?
Spotify: a rock icon’s revolt
The Highway Code: prioritising cyclists
Wit & Wisdom
Tennis: an astonishing comeback in Melbourne
Football: the midfielder who returned from the dead
Cricket: England comes up short in the West Indies
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
Who is to blame, Putin… or Nato?
Review of reviews: Books
Theatre: Dr Semmelweis • Bristol Old Vic (0117-987 7877). Until 19 February Running time: 2hrs 40mins
Podcasts… from motivational speakers to Vegas magicians
Film
The Gilded Age: Downton gets an American makeover
Exhibition of the week Francis Bacon: Man and Beast • Royal Academy, London W1 (020-7300 8090, royalacademy.org.uk). Until 17 April
Gainsborough’s Blue Boy at the National Gallery
Best books… Arabella Weir • The author and comedian chooses her five favourite books. She is performing her new show Does My Mum Loom Big in This? at London’s Southbank on Saturday 12 February (southbankcentre.co.uk)
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
Best properties on the market
What the experts recommend
Recipe of the week
Wine choice
New cars: what the critics say
The best… air fryers
Tips of the week… tackling screen addiction
And for those who have everything…
The internet… photo printing services
This week’s dream: an enchanting cruise on the River Nile
Hotel of the week
Getting the flavour of…
Last-minute offers from top travel companies
Well-loved comedian, gag-writer and panel game stalwart
Australian socialite who walked his lion on the King’s Road
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
Spotify: a question of identity
Issue of the week: the Bank of England under fire • Soaring inflation has prompted accusations of economic mismanagement
Soaring commodities: what the experts say
The power of Wordle
Commentators
City profiles
Who’s tipping what
Market summary
Supermarket revolution: the end of shopping as we know it? • A new generation of...