The Independent - 2020-10-14

• Johnson’s strategy contains the worst of both worlds
• Starmer: Circuit breaker is needed to stop rise in cases
• Would a short national lockdown actually work?
• A good show by Starmer but there is something missing
• The virus is out of control, and only a pasty with chips or salad can save us now
• Sage advice: the scientific counsel ministers ignored
• How Bolton avoided a third major lockdown despite virus cases still on the rise
• Crust of the matter: pasty at centre of restrictio­ns debate
• Why our leaders should try not to play with their food
• Hate crimes at all-time high
• PM to speak to European Commission chief ahead of crunch Brexit summit
• Ferry firms handed £80m to keep medical supplies entering UK after Brexit
• Partial state school closures rise for third week in a row
• Vulnerable told they can still go to work or school
• ‘Light-touch approach’ to gender pay gap leaves UK trailing other nations
• IPhone 12: Apple hopes 5G, magnets and not smashing can win people round
• Johnson jokes on lockdown restrictio­ns during meeting
• Cummings and family ‘avoid huge council tax bill on Durham properties’
• Home news in brief
• Trump ignores polls and tells rally Biden ‘is shot’
• Did Trump really build the world’s strongest economy?
• Supreme Court nominee duels with Democrats in second day of hearings
• Taliban and US launch fresh attacks in Afghanista­n
• Austrian ski resort made ‘momentous errors’ that helped spread coronaviru­s
• Great Barrier Reef ‘has lost half its corals since 1995’
• World news in brief
• We need to feel we can talk about the babies we have lost
• How Johnson can bridge the widening north-south divide
• It’s Amazon Prime Day and we’re lining Bezos’s pockets
• There may be cold months ahead but it’s not all doom and gloom for employment
• I was all ‘Emily in Paris’ on my starry-eyed adventure
• It’s disgracefu­l that the press stays silent on Assange’s case
• Johnson now faces serious opposition from both sides
• Nobel Prize winner who revealed threat to the ozone
• He attended boarding school in Switzerlan­d before continuing his studies in Mexico, where he received a chemical engineerin­g degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1965; in Germany, where he received a graduate degree from the Univers
• A walk on the wild side
• Every day I hiked, every night I camped, and in-between the mountains gave me what I needed. At home I felt agitated and frustrated, but out walking I was happy and free. It was as if I was tapping into something intrinsic, like an ancestral yearning to b
• GONE COUNTRY
• Three pieces of advice for BA’s new chief executive
• When will Berlin’s airport be cleared for landings?
• SLUMBER PARTY
• The sitcom masterpiec­e still breaking taboos 20 years on
• UK job losses hit highest level in more than a decade
• What if there had been no financial crash in 2008?
• People in debt urged to take action as loan deals shrink
• How a tax quirk could push solo workers into the red
• Nearly 2 million young people ‘fear homelessne­ss if they are made unemployed’
• Rashford ‘proud’ of MBE but focused on ‘momentum’
• Southgate encouraged by added ‘control’ vs Belgium
• Southgate spoilt for choice with England depth
• Meeting tests unity of Big Six over Project Big Picture
• The dysfunctio­n and false dawns after FSG’s arrival
• Maja happy to be away from spotlight in Bordeaux
• Two teams withdraw amid outbreak but Giro rolls on
• NFL season’s vital moment arrives after Covid outbreak
• Sport News In Brief

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