Inside out

Back page gossip from the 10 December issue of Research Europe

To go fast, go alone?

There was much jubilation in the UK when, on 2 December, the country’s drug regulator became the first in the world to authorise the use of a Covid-19 vaccine on the basis of large-scale clinical trials. But the UK’s go-it-alone approach, and its presentation of the news, ruffled feathers in Europe.