The Independent - 2020-12-08

• The vaccinatio­n rollout is a remarkable moment – but it’s still a global effort
• Johnson plans Brussels dash in last-ditch bid to save deal
• PM’s clumsy choreograp­hy is nothing but jive talking
• Is the debate over fishing rights just a red herring?
• Post-Brexit red tape could cost firms £7.5bn a year
• How EU leaders are torn over trade deal with Britain
• V-Day: first patients to receive Covid vaccine today
• Tories accused of ‘attack’ on human rights during Covid
• Give disadvanta­ged pupils laptops to help bridge gap with peers, urges Labour
• Brother of Manchester bomber admits key role
• ‘Weak’ government holding back response to extremism
• Vaccine tsar to leave post
• ‘Majority’ of vulnerable to be vaccinated by February
• Cancer charity cuts further £45m from research funds
• Warn parents about toxic air pollution, says mother of girl who died from asthma
• Richest 1% produce 11 times the carbon emissions of poorest 50%, says study
• Every country ‘failing to do enough’ to meet Paris target
• Labour MP resigns over samesex union comments
• Deliveroo gifts £50,000 in fight against food poverty
• Trump’s push for a deal in the Gulf might yet falter
• Global arms sales surge to nearly £270bn as US and Chinese firms dominate
• Nuclear scientist ‘killed by AI-controlled machine gun’
• Worth a few, Bob: Dylan sells entire back catalogue in reported nine-figure deal
• Mystery illness in Indian town leaves one dead and puts hundreds in hospital
• World news in brief
• A high-stakes poker game decided by who blinks first
• The SNP must prepare for life after Nicola Sturgeon
• Deal or no deal, businesses need time to adjust to Brexit
• Football fandom is changing – and the idiots we heard at Millwall won’t change that
• Making my own Christmas decoration­s is the closest I’ve come to discoverin­g a faith
• Sporting comebacks are bad news for those on deadline
• Johnson forgot to switch on the oven for his Brexit deal
• Museum director who pushed creative boundaries
• The positivity of pessimism
• ‘Just talk, just say anything’
• Can we spend more than 90 days in Europe post-Brexit?
• BIRTHDAYS
• The struggle of isolating in a crowded refugee camp
• TIME TO SHAPE UP
• KEEP THE CHILL AWAY
• A CHRISTMAS TORI
• Ashley’s Frasers makes 11th hour bid to buy Debenhams
• The Sports Direct founder may just be able to bring walkingdea­d Debs to life
• B&Q owner to pay back £130m business rates relief
• Covid deepens child labour misery in diamond mines
• Business news in brief
• England face Poland in World Cup qualificat­ion
• United madness defined by comedowns and comebacks
• United’s ‘tradition’ of doing it the hard way could cost them dearly against Leipzig
• Is Arteta actually trying to solve his attacking crisis?
• Feel-good Chelsea have become title contenders
• Why do England struggle to win games they should win?
• Sport news in brief

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