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 main stories and how they were covered

THE WEEK

The Week

Politics

The UK at a glance

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

Castaway of the week

Parenting in lockdown

Farewell

The thorn in Putin’s side • Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s most effective and fearless critic, has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison

The case of the poisoned underpants

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best articles: Europe

The students’ revolt: Turkey’s culture war

Best articles: International

Access to the ballot box: the politics of voter registration

What the scientists are saying…

Spiders use pulleys to kill lizards

Turning hills into batteries

Trump’s acquittal: a political verdict?

Gossip

Abrasive bosses: a warning from KPMG

The “war on woke”: fake outrage?

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: why Liverpool have lost their edge

Cricket: a sobering loss for England in Chennai

Rugby union: England recover some flair

Sporting headlines

LETTERS • Pick of the week’s correspondence

HS2: creative destruction?

ARTS Review of reviews: Books

Novel of the week

Podcasts... “invisible flatmates” in isolated times

Albums of the week: three new releases

Films to stream

Film & TV

Ramy: the celebrated US sitcom arrives on Channel 4

Artist of the week: Edvard Munch

News from the art world

The List

The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

The Archers: what happened last week

Book now

Best properties on the market • Architecturally striking and curious houses

Food & Drink

Recipe of the week: Pork agrodolce • This stew is inspired by the food of Sicily, an island that has been occupied by so many different cultures over the centuries, its cuisine is a melting pot, says Alan Rosenthal. Here, rich fatty pork is married with sweet and sour flavours and a touch of north African spice.

Consumer

New cars: what the critics say

The best... binoculars

Tenacious singer who co-founded The Supremes

Companies in the news ...and how they were assessed

Seven days in the Square Mile

Jaguar Land Rover: the Tesla of the West Midlands?

Talking points

UK fortunes: what the experts think

Market snapshots

Commentators

City profile

Shares Who’s tipping what

…and some to hold, avoid or sell

Market summary

Directors’ dealings

Form guide • Shares tipped 12 weeks ago

Are we losing the rat race? • Rats are clever, resilient, horrifying and yet somehow admirable, says Richard Godwin. And, while so many of us have been stuck at home during the lockdown, they have been silently colonising our office spaces