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
Spirit of the age
Good week for:
Bad week for:
Social care funding plan
Channel migrants’ record
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 Olympic gold medallist Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill
Blaming social media
Farewell
The UFO files • A Pentagon report released last month examines mysterious phenomena in the skies. What does it tell us?
The Roswell incident
Best articles: Britain
IT MUST BE TRUE… • I read it in the tabloids
Best of the American columnists
Art and ethics: Hunter Biden’s controversial new career
Best articles: International
“Down with communism!”: the mass protests in Cuba
What the scientists are saying…
Dogs are born to be our best friends
Covid: the risk to children
Gossip
Northern Ireland: time for an amnesty?
Spyware: an Orwellian nightmare?
Germany: a once-in-a-century flood
Tokyo 2020: the strangest Games in history
Wit & Wisdom
Statistics of the week
Golf: Morikawa wins The Open
F1: the most determined drive of Hamilton’s career
Rugby league: a remarkable final
Sporting headlines
Pick of the week’s correspondence
Changing the British diet
Review of reviews: Books
Theatre and opera: South Pacific and Anna X
Podcasts... online rage, taboos and obesity
Films to stream
Film & TV
Fear Street trilogy: slasher horror with a Netflix twist
Exhibition of the week British Art Show 9 • Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen (03000-200 293, britishartshow9.co.uk). Until 10 October, then touring
News from the art world
The List
The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing
The Archers: what happened last week
Television
New to subscription TV
Best properties on the market • Properties with income potential
Food & Drink
Recipe of the week • Cauliflower fritters are a Palermo street-food classic from the friggitorie – hot and salty from the fryer and finished with a squeeze of lemon juice, says Ben Tish. Delicious. Perfect served with a glass of dry Marsala for an aperitivo.
Picpoul de Pinet
Consumer
The best… sun loungers
Obituaries
Companies in the news • ...and how they were assessed
Seven days in the Square Mile
Inquire within
Issue of the week: the bumpy recovery • Inflation has been spooking markets, but the surging Delta variant poses a much greater risk
Making money: what the experts think
Legal bull run
Commentators
City profiles
Who’s tipping what
Market summary
Directors’ dealings
Form guide • Shares tipped 12 weeks ago
Market view
“Fantastic, fantastic!”: on the road with Boris Johnson • Everyone in Britain thinks they know all about the PM. But does anyone really have any idea what makes him tick? In a major profile for the US magazine The Atlantic, Tom McTague tried to uncover the elusive truth