EU's 'most embarrassing' day

Dear Reader,
With more than half the adult population vaccinated, the debate in this country is very much about what we can do and when. The Prime Minister caused a storm yesterday by indicating that he has changed his mind and will not stand in the way of vaccine certificates for pubs. Perhaps the biggest unanswered question is when we will be allowed to travel abroad again. The Government is exercising maximum caution, but not everyone is convinced. Oliver Smith makes the case that there are 16 good reasons to resume international travel as soon as possible.
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The UK and the European Union remain in talks over Europe’s threats to block vaccine exports to Britain. Our continental neighbours are growing increasingly jittery; only yesterday officials raided a vaccine plant in Italy convinced it was full of vaccines secretly destined for Britain. The reality was quite the opposite. Our reporters reconstruct the full story of how elite Italian police accidentally impounded their own vaccine supply in this excellent piece.
Bernie Ecclestone is no stranger to controversial views, but for the past few years he’s had to express them from outside the Formula One paddock. That might change this year, the tycoon tells Tom Cary – he’s been invited to the Bahrain Grand Prix. In the interview, Mr Ecclestone stands by and even expands on his contentious comments about Lewis Hamilton and Black Lives Matter, while also arguing that the lack of competitiveness is far worse than the days of Michael Schumacher. Read it all here.
Finally, it’s several years since a few excitable folks thought the Large Hadron Collider would suck the Earth into a black hole when switched on, but the gargantuan experiment continues to whir away and may have just made a world-changing discovery. Sarah Knapton explains how the “Beauty quarks” created in the LHC are the most exciting breakthrough in 20 years and could literally rewrite the rules of physics.
Chris
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