The Independent - 2021-08-01

• Let’s seize this chance of a bright green urban future
• Asylum seekers left waiting 10 years for claims decision
• Revealed – the fake Home Office website designed to deter asylum seekers
• ‘Freedom day could prove to be my death sentence’
• Government abandons plan for student vaccine passes
• Lack of ‘cheap’ travel virus tests on the government’s website to be investigat­ed
• Davey: Consider paying young people to get jab
• Fast food and taxi perks will overcome vaccine hesitancy of young, ministers hope
• NHS changes its oximeter advice for minority patients after doubts about accuracy
• Boris and Carrie expecting second baby in December
• Tory chairman ‘sold access to his uncle Prince Charles’
• Labour claims legacy of 2012 Olympics ‘in tatters’
• Tories deny there’s a price tag for privileged access
• Joblessnes­s fears as Sunak scales back furlough scheme
• The regenerati­on game and the return of city park life
• Soaring numbers of women can’t stop having a gamble
• ‘I spent £2,000 on fixed odds terminal roulette’
• Digby, don’t be a muppet: Alex Scott hits back at Lord on accent, class, privilege
• Home news in brief
• Bezos fails to block Nasa from deal with rival Musk
• ‘Calculated lie’ – Depp has rare victory over ex-wife in $7m divorce charity pledge
• Why vaccine diplomacy is China’s latest PR exercise
• Fighting rages in three Afghan cities as Taliban launches sustained assault
• Turkey wildfires: Six dead and hundreds homeless
• World news in brief
• The Labour Party conference poses a challenge for Starmer
• We must not sleepwalk into a global education crisis
• The struggle for gay rights can show us how to bring an end to the culture wars
• Our Covid hibernatio­n may finally be coming to an end
• We need electoral reform to fix our broken democracy
• Northern Irish patients must not become collateral damage
• ‘Blame game’ and lack of political courage will not abate Scotland’s drug deaths
• Mea culpa: advocating the proper use of verbs
• Sturgeon should have acted on drugs deaths years ago
• Britain’s vulnerable need vaccine boosters now
• Thompson-Herah thwarts old rival as Jamaicans dominate to sweep 100m
• Peaty leads GB to mixed relay gold in chaotic race
• Brownlee completes medal set with team triathlon win
• ‘I’m a different athlete to Rio’ – Muir brings ruthless streak into Tokyo Games
• ‘I didn’t want to waste my gift’ – De Grasse aims to inherit Bolt’s sprinting title
• Dominant South Africa beat Lions in ill-tempered Test
• ROCK OF AGES
• A musical education my daughter doesn’t deserve
• Following the devil’s tracks
• ‘Those of us who still live are the ones in misery’
• Century-old sunshine
• Top 10... historical figures rescued by works of fiction
• Green, green grass of home
• The book quest that comes with a Da Vinci Code twist
• Much ado about nothing
• ECO ACCESSORIE­S
• A son’s touching tribute to a titan of modern literature
• Murder in the multiverse
• BIRTHDAYS
• HIS KINGDOM’S COME
• A GOOD INNINGS
• Why we’ll always have Paris
• King’s crown slips but make way for an insect apocalypse
• The Reunion paradox
• Why I say Weymouth beats Bournemout­h every time
• My Northern Irish road trip
• ONE MAN’S TRASH
• Nine African cities to stop by that fly under the radar
• Wonderful Westbury has dyed-in-the-wool history
• Do I need additional travel cover because of my age?

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