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.
Back from the brink?
The Met in turmoil
THE WEEK
The Week
The Prosecco Squad
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 actress and dancer Leslie Caron
The cables that connect the world • The global network of undersea communications cables is a technological marvel – but it’s also very vulnerable
The first transatlantic cable
IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids
Best articles: Britain
The Capitol attack investigation: splitting the Republicans
Ottawa under siege: the truckers’ revolt
What the scientists are saying…
Implants help the paralysed walk again
Cancer survival rates
Pick of the week’s Gossip
Brexit: in search of opportunities
Covid-19: is the pandemic over?
Prince Andrew: vindication for his accuser?
Country manners: “be nice and share”
Wit & Wisdom
Winter Olympics: heavy snowfall disrupts the Games
Football: Man United’s Rangnick revival fails to materialise
Golf: beer cans stop play
Pick of the week’s correspondence
One Party After Another
Control
A Previous Life
Theatre: The Chairs • Almeida Theatre, London N1 (020-7359 4404). Until 5 March Running time: 1hr 45mins (approx.)
Podcasts… insights into dating, and more Stephen Fry
Film
This is Going to Hurt: Ben Whishaw shines in a gory medical comedy
Exhibition of the week Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child • Hayward Gallery, London SE1 (020-3879 9555, southbankcentre.co.uk). Until 15 May
News from the art world
Best books… Merryn Somerset Webb • The commentator and editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek chooses five books on late capitalism. Her book Share Power: How Ordinary People Can Change the Way That Capitalism Works – and Make Money Too is out now
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
Consumer
This week’s dream: New Mexico’s glorious hot springs
Hotel of the week
Getting the flavour of…
Last-minute offers from top travel companies
Genial polymath who hosted University Challenge
Playback singer known as the Nightingale of India
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
NatWest et al: back in the money
Issue of the week: Ukraine and the markets • The immediate shock might be transitory, but the economic fall-out wouldn’t be
The NFT bonanza: what the papers say
Digging deep
Commentators
City profiles
Shares
The night the National Gallery lost a masterpiece • The theft of Francisco de Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington in 1961 caused a sensation. Four years later a retired taxi driver confessed to the heist and was sent to jail. Martin Fletcher reveals who the real thief was – and how he stole the portrait
Crossword
Charity of the week