The Independent - 2020-07-08

• It’ll take more than a VAT cut to boost confidence
• Patients are being put at risk, major inquiry warns
• Hunt: We cannot let this report gather dust on a shelf
• ‘Mesh stole the little time I had left with my father’
• Lessons still haven’t been learnt from thalidomid­e
• Starmer to PM: Apologise for care homes remarks
• Johnson’s boomerang of blame hits him in the face
• Depp’s ex-wife ‘invented violence claims’, court told
• Former Labour MP pleads guilty to child sex offence
• What is happening with Covid-19 testing figures?
• Pressure on chancellor over furlough scheme as he sets out £2bn youth jobs fund
• Stamp duty cut could come into effect immediatel­y
• Bars shut due to virus cases just days after reopening
• Britain behind rest of world on masks, says top scientist
• UK to resume selling arms to Saudi Arabia despite ‘possible’ war crimes
• Britain’s hypocrisy in resuming arms sales to Saudi Arabia is astounding
• Russia promises retaliator­y sanctions after Magnitsky-style measures announced
• Homeless ex-prisoners are reoffendin­g to return to jail
• ‘People will die’: Policy will force thousands back on the streets, Pritti Patel warned
• Publisher of Mirror and Express to axe 550 jobs
• Teenage mask entreprene­ur keeps campaign covered
• Two-thirds of people with virus are ‘asymptomat­ic’
• Home news in brief
• Melbourne put under strict lockdown after virus spike
• Tell-all book depicts Trump as a narcissist and cheat
• Meet the defectors goading Kim Jong-un with balloons
• Brazil’s president has tested positive for coronaviru­s
• World news in brief
• The publishing mainstream can’t relate to black stories
• Lockdown has liberated my clothes from the patriarchy
• I don’t trust this government to offer a good deal on jobs
• Canning the Huawei 5G project is one thing – the way we do it is quite another
• A ban on foreign students will permanentl­y damage the US’s relationsh­ip with Asia
• I believe care home experts, not our blame-shifting PM
• Graphic designer who put heart in ‘I love New York’
• Beyond the trenches
• Our Independen­ce Day was saved by outdoor drinking
• ‘I wanted to do everything possible to see my family’
• Flying just like last year, but with masks. And less tea
• What happens to my family if I get coronaviru­s abroad?
• CARRY ON CAMPING
• Cate Blanchett on playing an anti-feminist: ‘What is so frightenin­g about equality?’
• A TIMELY REMINDER
• Second virus wave could put 5 million out of work
• Has the reopening of pubs scared away the shoppers?
• Covid-19 leaves Poland’s coal industry on the brink
• Business news in brief
• What will the chancellor’s summer update contain?
• For some, the pandemic’s effects could last a lifetime
• Why £33,864 might be the key to our happiness
• The world is watching ahead of historic first Test
• How do you get a cricket ball to swing without saliva?
• Wigan Warriors owners look to save Wigan Athletic
• Welbeck proves worth in vital Watford victory
• Signing Thiago goes against everything Klopp has built
• The British champion and key worker bringing boxing back into the limelight
• Sport news in brief

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