The Independent - 2021-04-21

• The beautiful game is no ordinary business
• England’s ‘Big Six’ desert the European Super League as tournament implodes
• A massive enterprise that was flawed from the start
• PM couldn’t resist chance to be the saviour of football
• ‘We haven’t been listening to fans for a very long time’
• Play ball: are elite leagues breaking economic rules?
• Government taskforce plan for Covid home treatments
• ‘The hard work begins now’
• Khan urged to cancel road tunnel due to climate crisis
• Johnson ditches plan for White House-style briefings
• Cafes and gyms to reopen in Scotland next Monday
• Patel admits to large gaps in UK tracing foreign arrivals
• Border staff spot 100 fake Covid test certificat­es daily
• Cameron and Sunak both called to Greensill inquiry
• The politician and the pub: a potent cocktail of conflict
• Annie Mac announces BBC Radio 1 exit after 17 years
• ‘Possible link’ between Johnson & Johnson vaccine and blood clots in patients
• Power cuts, rat infestatio­ns and raw sewage as hospital NHS repair bill hits £9bn
• Home news in brief
• Scores join hunger strike in support of Navalny protest
• Chad president dies days after winning sixth term
• UN demands release of Princess Latifa by UAE
• Brussels considers making English an official language
• Newly discovered insect named after the coronaviru­s
• Achieving net-zero carbon is about to get much harder
• The government’s disregard for the NHS is clear to see
• Boomtown cancelled: can we still have a summer of music?
• This is how to really put an end to Whitehall sleaze
• The Super League shows American business practices don’t always translate
• Someone other than a Castro rules in Cuba... truly historic
• It’s telling that Johnson has spoken more about the Super League than Brexit unrest
• First woman hired to write Wonder Woman comics
• How a presidenti­al shooting changed mental illness laws
• What Americans think about the royal family
• Europe’s most successful airports revealed: they’re in Russia, Turkey and Ukraine
• Will I have to quarantine for a Christmas Australia trip?
• BURNING DESIRE
• ‘I’m literally just trying to be normal. But I can’t do it’
• Unemployme­nt rate falls but still 800,000 fewer on payrolls than pre-pandemic
• Primark owner to pay back £121m in furlough cash
• Why is UK struggling more than France or Germany?
• Business news in brief
• Homeworkin­g insurance fear as office return resisted
• Battle for cheap mortgage deals as property gets boost
• Cash decline and Covid has UK in digital currency race
• Coaches hung out to dry by AWOL owners amid furore surroundin­g Super League
• For all his billions, Henry is poorer than any of us knew
• Why is football outraged by ESL more than by racism?
• Chelsea play out goalless draw with Brighton
• Sport news in brief
• How it all unravelled

The Independent - 2021-04-20

The Independent - 2021-04-22