The Independent - 2021-02-05

• Lose the Northern Ireland protocol and the rest of Brexit could soon unravel
• Medics warn against easing of restrictio­ns as cases drop
• Bank: Economy to recover as the vaccine is rolled out
• Have negative interest rates really moved a step closer?
• Hotel quarantine to come into force on 15 February
• How much will it cost and where will I actually stay?
• ‘Inhumane’ conditions are forcing asylum seekers to risk their lives to leave UK
• Low vaccine uptake among ethnic minority NHS staff
• How immunisati­on could open up your holiday plans
• Northern Ireland police chief calls for calm as trade tensions rise post-Brexit
• ‘Surprising­ly unconcerne­d’
• Johnson’s chief adviser on union sacked after bust-up
• ‘Boundaries breached’: yoga teachers form first union to tackle sexual harassment
• Dump coal mine plan or be ‘vilified’, scientist tells PM
• Is PM’s climate leadership about to go up in flames?
• Deforestat­ion is ‘stressing animals out’, report warns
• ‘Game changer’ could save post-Brexit music tours
• Maternity law reform will allow politician­s to be paid to take six months of leave
• Piers Corbyn arrested over anti-vax ‘Holocaust leaflet’
• Home news in brief
• ‘Descent into the abyss’
• I lost my son in the Beirut blast – it will always be the defining moment of my life
• House votes to remove Greene from committees
• Conspiracy theorist who has voiced hateful views
• Navalny protesters 28 to a prison cell, one loo, no beds
• Iranian diplomat jailed for role in 2018 Paris bomb plot
• Oxygen thieves: Mexican mafia targets tank supplies
• Harry Dunn’s alleged killer ‘was working as a US spy’
• World news in brief
• Taxes shmaxes – work the over-90s to pay for services
• There is a huge credibilit­y gap between what the government says and does
• Has Sunak pitched his tent in the anti-lockdown camp?
• Labour needs to focus on the young to gain a political edge
• When economists ask us to value nature, we must listen
• Brexiteers are incensed at the outcomes of their own project
• Rejoin the customs union – it’s the only way out of this
• Actor who played Screech in TV’s ‘Saved by the Bell’
• The novel that predicted the pandemic two years ago
• ‘I like the intoxicati­on of feeling overwhelme­d by a creative obsession’
• BLAST FROM THE PAST
• Can we start thinking about internatio­nal travel again?
• BIRTHDAYS
• LIVE-IN LOVERS
• DARK COCAINE OPERA
• WISH FULFILMENT
• Robust rock’n’roll that’s happy to stay in its lane
• Dogecoin value shoots up £1.4bn after Musk tweets
• Barratt takes £57m hit to fix dangerous cladding
• Cumbrian coal mine is the wrong kind of levelling up
• To hire or not to hire?
• Business news in brief
• Aimless Spurs undone by newly transforme­d Blues
• City’s room to improve should worry title rivals
• Liverpool’s City test about consistenc­y, not title race
• Root stays true to himself ahead of 100th England cap
• Why the Super Bowl still matters so much to America
• Can Six Nations lift rugby from bleakest moment?
• King rules in parallel world of comical WBA chaos
• Sport News In Brief

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