The Independent - 2021-03-01

• Chancellor has to lay out a path to economic recovery that benefits all
• ‘Economic illiteracy’: Sunak package savaged by Labour
• Budget is not time for tax rises, MPs’ report warns
• Government complacenc­y betraying a generation of unemployed, says Brown
• ‘How does someone with dementia bounce back?’
• Older patients with ovarian cancer getting poorer care
• Cases of Brazilian Covid variant detected in UK
• Free rapid Covid tests for school children in England
• Seven years late: the flexible rail season ticket
• Minister claims history being ‘decolonise­d’ by ‘Soviet Union censors’
• Domestic abuse bill set to outlaw revenge porn threats
• Homes threatened by flood should get grants to make properties more resilient
• Kitchens on castor wheels and flagstone lounges...
• PM told to set legal target to reverse nature’s decline
• Promises to stop decline of nature need state action
• Why the Budget will prove difficult for Keir Starmer
• Caledonian queen fighting for her political future
• Support for independen­t Scotland drops to 50%
• Coronation Street star Johnny Briggs dies, aged 85
• Home news in brief
• Trump hints at 2024 run in trademark speech designed to consolidat­e leadership
• ‘Myanmar is a battlefiel­d’: 18 killed during protests
• ‘What is happening is terrible and unacceptab­le’
• World news in brief
• This will be a Budget like no other – Sunak has to put the UK on the road to recovery
• The PM’s summer catch-up schools are just another boxticking exercise to get votes
• Why Europe needs to up its game in fighting corruption
• South Korea must recognise allegation­s of sexual violence during the Vietnam War
• Delay should be the catchline when considerin­g raising tax
• Another vaccine milestone passed is a cheering thought
• I look forward to a time filled with less coronaviru­s anxiety
• Poet and publisher who championed Beat writers
• Five years ago the Home Affairs Select Committee recommende­d that the government fully decriminal­ise sex workers as the best means of ensuring their safety, but the Home Office blocked a change in legislatio­n. Diana Johnson said in the House of Commons t
• How an ambitious Highland fling became a Zoom quiz
• Is a Mediterran­ean cruise in the autumn a wise decision?
• BIRTHDAYS
• Alex Jones’s (trashy music) lockdown survival guide
• How Princess Anne became a surprising royal favourite
• TIME TO GO GREEN
• GUILTY PLEASURE
• It’s is not the time for a tax hike but the chancellor is still going to talk about one
• Ruling the roost: How King thrived amid the pandemic
• Chelsea and United play out predictabl­e stalemate
• Tuchel nails first directive –make Chelsea hard to beat
• Leicester’s nightmare week ends with defeat by Arsenal
• Bale stars as Spurs achieve emphatic win over Burnley
• Canelo wins before booking showdown with Saunders
• Contrast in composure key to Wales’ win over England

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