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.

Cities under siege: Russia’s campaign intensifies

The war on truth

Sanctions take their toll

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The refugee crisis

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 Strictly Come Dancing’s Oti Mabuse

Octoculture • Plans for the world’s first octopus farm, in the Canary Islands, have stirred an ethical debate

The Animal Sentience Committee

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

Best articles: Britain

Biden’s high-profile speech: flunking the Churchill test

Taiwan and Ukraine: an ominous parallel?

What the scientists are saying…

Dogs grieve for their dead friends

Ethnic disparities in cancer

Russia’s war: the “living hell” in Ukraine’s cities

A “Potemkin army”: Moscow’s troubled campaign

Oligarchs: punishing the billionaires

President Putin: can he be toppled?

Wit & Wisdom

Cricket: the remarkable career of an Australian superstar

Football: any takers for Chelsea Football Club?

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Review of reviews: Books

Theatre: The Merchant of Venice • Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe (020-7401 9919). Until 9 April Running time: 2hrs 10mins

Podcasts… the war in Ukraine, and Covid conspiracies

Film

The Dropout: a Silicon Valley morality tale

Exhibition of the week Surrealism Beyond Borders • Tate Modern, London SE1 (020-7887 8888, tate.org.uk). Until 29 August

News from the art world

Best books… Helen Edmundson • The award-winning playwright and screenwriter chooses her five favourite books. Her acclaimed adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel Small Island runs at the National Theatre until 30 April (nationaltheatre.org.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: mother’s “famous butter chicken” • Nothing reminds me more of my childhood than coming home to the smell of my amazing mum preparing her “famous butter chicken”, says Kalpna Woolf’s son, Ben. With tender chicken pieces in a perfectly balanced spicy yet creamy sauce, it’s a dish to warm your stomach and your heart.

Consumer

This week’s dream: the beaches of the Albanian Riviera

Hotel of the week

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

Obituaries

Companies in the news • …and how they were assessed

En+/Polymetal: end of the line for “the Caviar Express”

Seven days in the Square Mile

Issue of the week: the oil and commodities shock • Fears of shortages and soaring prices are roiling markets globally, with no let up in sight

ESG and the war: what the pundits say

Time to plug in?

Commentators

City profile

Shares

The canoe man: the untold story of what John Darwin did next • Twenty years after paddling out into the North Sea to fake his own death – deceiving even his own family – John Darwin now lives a quiet life in the Philippines. Gordon Rayner reports

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