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.

The war in Ukraine: is there an end in sight?

Housing refugees

Back to the USSR?

THE WEEK

The Week

The oil shock

Spirit of the age

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

Castaway of the week

Putin’s private army • The Wagner Group, a mercenary organisation closely linked to the Kremlin, is reported to be operating in Ukraine

The battle of Khasham

Best articles: Britain

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

Best of the American columnists

Record petrol prices: who should carry the can?

Best articles: International

A “gutter fight”: South Korea’s election plumbs new depths

What the scientists are saying…

Learning the language of pigs

A rise in long-term illness

Pick of the week’s Gossip

Mariupol: a bloody bombardment

Oligarchs: the end of the affair

Soaring inflation: the cost-of-living crunch

The Endurance: a remarkable discovery

Wit & Wisdom

Chelsea’s oligarch: the ugly face of the beautiful game

Commentary box

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Review of reviews: Books

Theatre: Persuasion • Rose Theatre, Kingston, until 19 March, then tours until 14 May Running time: 2hrs 10mins

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

The Ipcress File: entertaining TV drama with a hard act to follow

Exhibition of the week Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain, 1945-65 • Barbican Art Gallery, London EC2 (020-7638 4141, barbican.org.uk). Until 26 June

News from the art world

Best books… Jess Phillips • The Labour MP is talking about her book, Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics: My Life as an MP, at the Oxford Literary Festival on 3 April (oxfordliteraryfestival.org)

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Fine Edwardian properties

What the experts say

Recipe of the week: turmeric fish fingers with tartare sauce • This is a great recipe to make with kids, say Nicole Pisani and Joanna Weinberg. The turmeric adds a golden colour to the crumb and the oats provide an unusual, knobbly texture. They are quite delicate to work with, so take your time.

Consumer

Epic road trips in America, Australia and Europe

Living it up in southern Piedmont

The UK’s smallest spa

Obituaries

Companies in the news • …and how they were assessed

Tsingshan/London Metal Exchange: Big Shot’s bad bet

Seven days in the Square Mile

Issue of the week: Russia and China • While a Russian debt default is deemed manageable, the embroilment of China may not be

Commodities mayhem: the experts’ view

Collaring inflation

Commentators

City profiles

My escape from Saudi Arabia to freedom • Three years ago, Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun became known as the “Saudi runaway”: the 18-year-old girl who fled from a family holiday in Kuwait to Bangkok, before eventually reaching Canada to start a new life. Here, she tells her story

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