• Uber drivers are workers not self-employed, Supreme Court rules – BBC
• How Amsterdam is stealing a march on rivals as Brexit trading hub – Reuters
• Airbus reports loss of €1bn after Covid, and could shed 15,000 jobs – The Guardian
• COVID-19: Oxford jab more effective when doses are delivered three months apart, study finds – Sky
• Spain sees fourth night of riots over imprisonment of rapper – DW
• Are migrant YouTubers influencing others to travel to the EU? – BBC
• AstraZeneca vaccine remains unpopular in Germany – DW

Asia:

• Analysis: China decoupling could trim 1% off US GDP – China Daily
• Underfunded and Under Pressure, U.S. Pensions to Keep Investing in China – WSJ
• China overtakes U.S. as Europe’s main trading partner for the first time. – CNBC
• No, China is not the EU’s top trading partner. – Politico
• U.S. Charges Three North Koreans in $1.3 Billion Hacking Spree – Reuters
• CNN finds evidence China is advancing theory that the virus originated in a lab in Maryland – CNN
• China’s Coal Supply Crisis Means High Prices, Blackouts – VOA News

Trans-Tasman:

• Greens to put inequality at centre of election campaign after billionaires make out ‘like bandits’ – The Guardian
• Queensland rental crisis forcing people to live in tents – ABC
• ‘It’s not optional’: Debt collectors sent in for overdue quarantine hotel bills – The SMH
• 89% of Victorian cannabis inquiry submissions want legal cannabis – Pondering Pot
• Laughing Stock: Australia’s new media code rivals our climate policy for absurdity – Michael West
• Brittany Higgins’ shocking story must be a turning point. Women in politics have had enough – The Guardian
• Australia’s recovery appears to be going well, but it’s still very weird out there – The Guardian
• COVID-19 vaccines begin as Prime Minister receives Pfizer immunisation – The SMH
• Abuse, threats and a media circus: what happens after a business becomes the centre of a Covid cluster – The Guardian
• Only allowing stranded Australians home on compassionate grounds would undermine the core rights of citizenship – ABC
• RBNZ: LVRs could lower bank lending to property investors by as much as 40% – Interest.co.nz
• You can’t lose with property mate – Interest.co.nz

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.

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