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
NHS in crisis
Ukraine’s war in the skies
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China’s Covid crisis
Spirit of the age
Good week for:
Bad week for:
Sunak’s five pledges
Poll watch
Europe at a glance
The world at a glance
People
Castaway of the week • A recent edition of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs featured the director Steven Spielberg
Viewpoint: Your order is at our hub
Farewell
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids
Best articles: International
Stone Age Islamism: the Taliban padlocks women’s rights
What the scientists are saying…
Some insects may feel pain
The “cancer emergency”
The year ahead: can Sunak fix “broken Britain”?
Pick of the week’s Gossip
The pope who was dubbed “God’s rottweiler”
Designer known as “the high priestess of punk fashion”
The greatest footballer of all time
Review of reviews: new in paperback
Podcasts… to brighten up January
Albums of the week: three new releases
Film
Happy Valley: the triumphant return of the hit BBC series
Exhibitions of 2023: a preview • From Mondrian and Dürer to Sonia Boyce and dog portraiture, this year offers a range of exciting shows
Best books… Dean Burnett • The neuroscientist picks his favourite books. His new book Emotional Ignorance – part study of the science of emotions, part exploration of personal grief – is out this week, published by Guardian Faber at £14.99
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
Coming up for sale
Glorious gothic properties
Clementine Sussex pond pudding • Lemon is the citrus fruit that normally features in a Sussex pond pudding, but the thin-skinned clementine makes a delightful alternative, says Olivia Potts. As they steam, the clementines almost candify inside, bathed in the spiced melted butter and sugar sauce, and the pastry is suffused with butter and infused with the fragrant spiced fruit.
What the experts recommend
Low-alcohol beer
The Mercedes-AMG SL: recapturing a golden age of motoring
The best… cycling gear
How to… stay warm at home without heating
And for those who have everything…
Where to find… snowy escapes without skis
Six superb hotels to seek out in 2023 • From a pastoral idyll in Somerset to a Balinese eco-retreat, here are six of the travel writers’ top tips for this year
Pick of the week’s correspondence
The curse of age discrimination
Companies in the news …and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
Tesla/Foxconn/VinFast: a make-or-break year for EV makers
Issue of the week: the economic outlook for 2023 • The new year has dawned in grim fashion, but could it still surprise us?
Making money: what the experts think
Lost property
Commentators
City profiles
Shares for the year ahead
Market summary
Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of nuclear waste disposal • The nuclear facility at Sellafield doesn’t produce power any more, but making safe what has been left behind in Cumbria is an almost unimaginably expensive and complex task. Samanth...