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

Crunch time for Brexit

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The Week

Politics

Spirit of the age

Good week for

Bad week for

Deportation flight

Exam changes for 2021

Poll watch

The UK at a glance

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 medical scientist Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar

Viewpoint: Please, take our fish

Farewell

Nobel’s legacy • Winning a Nobel Prize isn’t easy, but it comes with fame, fortune and – most years – a glitzy ceremony in Sweden on 10 December

The Nobel’s #MeToo scandal

Best articles: Britain

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

Best articles: Europe

“Prison islands”: the migrant crisis in the Canaries

Best articles: International

“Love jihad”: India’s crusade against Muslim “Romeos”

What the scientists are saying…

The deep sea “blob” identified by camera

The “holy grail” of biology

Pick of the week’s Gossip

DeepMind: unlocking the secrets of life

The high street: is it doomed?

Puberty blockers: a welcome ruling?

Lab-grown chicken: meat without guilt

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Sport

Commentary box

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

The tangle over fishing

Review of reviews: Books

Podcasts... joining Isis, and leaving The High Low

Albums of the week: three new releases

Films to stream

Film and TV

Small Axe: a “Christ-like figure” in the Met

Exhibition of the week Lynette Yiadom-Boakye • Tate Britain, London SW1 (020-7887 8888 , tate.org.uk). Until 9 May

News from the art world

The List

Book now

The Archers: what happened last week

Best properties on the market

Food & Drink

Own-label wines

Recipe of the week • Taken from Happy Vegan Comfort Food by Karoline Jönsson, published by Pavilion at £14.99. To buy from The Week Bookshop for £11.99, call 020-3176 3835 or visit theweekbookshop.co.uk

Consumer

The best... Christmas gifts for children

Obituaries

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

Seven days in the Square Mile

Debenhams/Frasers Group: will Mike Ashley really save the day?

Talking points

Christmas gifts

Commentators

City profiles

Who’s tipping what

Market summary

Directors’ dealings

Form guide

Market view

The teenager who needed an armed guard to go to school • As one of the Little Rock Nine, Minnijean Brown-Trickey ran the gauntlet of racist mobs to attend her newly desegregated school. But once inside, says Kehinde Andrews, even the US army could not protect her from the hatred of fellow pupils