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

Drafting in the Army

Dashed hopes in Qatar

THE WEEK

The Week

Britain’s new coalmine

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

The NHS in decline

Tough migrant policy

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 the Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett

Viewpoint: Miserable towns

Farewell

To eight billion and beyond • There are now more than eight billion people on Earth – and the population is set to increase further

The West African megalopolis

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

The Hunter Biden files: smoking gun or damp squib?

Dawn raids and the plot to storm the Bundestag

Ruled by gangs: how Haiti was taken hostage

What the scientists are saying…

A mystery of avian evolution

New pollution drive

Harry and Meghan: the media war continues

Pick of the week’s Gossip

China: a “screeching” Covid U-turn

Intelligent chatbots: the coming revolution

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

World Cup: a blameless exit for Southgate’s England?

Cricket: a triumphant return to Pakistan

The Atlas Lions make footballing history

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Nursing the sense of togetherness

Books of the year • The critics’ top eight choices based on Christmas selections in national and international newspapers, The TLS, The Spectator and The New Statesman

Dance: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty • Sadler’s Wells, London EC1 until 15 January, then touring until 29 April (new-adventures.net) Run time: 2hrs

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

A Spy Among Friends: all-star adaptation of Ben Macintyre’s bestseller

Exhibition of the week Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso • Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (01223-748100, kettlesyard.co.uk). Until 19 February. Free entry

Where to buy… • The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery

Veronica Ryan wins the Turner

Best books… Robert Bathurst • The actor, known for his roles in Cold Feet and Toast of London, chooses his favourite books. He is playing Scrooge in Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol until 8 January (southbankcentre.co.uk)

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

Houses with character for £875,000 or less

Nine of the best food books of 2022

The best… stocking fillers

Tips of the week… how to decorate a rental property

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… Britain’s best Christmas markets

This week’s dream: a swimming holiday on the Turkish coast

Grace & Savour Solihull

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

The last veteran of the Dambusters Raid

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

FTX: the arrest of the disgraced crypto crusader

Issue of the week: the Edinburgh Reforms • Dumping red tape is...