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Economics

Which politician will dare dismantle crony capitalism?

Published in the London Evening Standard (November 25th, 2013) Earlier this year Jeremy Stafford was at a London conference on leadership, talking about the importance of ethics in […]

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Economics / Policy / Politics / Transport

Forget the nostalgia for British Rail – our trains are better than ever

Published in The Guardian (August 16th, 2013) There is a weary predictability to the political choreography. Once again, it’s revealed, commuter rail fares are rising above the rate […]

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Arts / Books / Economics

It makes the world go round

Published in The Observer (June 9th, 2013) Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin (Bodley Head) When an American explorer named William Henry Furness III arrived on the […]

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Economics / Politics

Is a clandestine world government meeting in Watford?

Published in The Daily Mail (June 6th, 2013) Even though it’s the birthplace of a Spice Girl, a former Gladiators champion and the Tory chairman Grant Shapps, nothing […]

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Economics / Policy / Politics / Welfare

Why do we subsidise firms that keep workers in poverty?

Published in The Independent (April 16th, 2013) Commodity trading seems to attract those characters who feel property dealing too ensnared by ethics, and the bonuses in banking just […]

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Economics

More capitalism, not less, will tame the corporate titans

Published in The Independent (February 20th, 2013) The headlines were dominated yesterday by an alleged murder in South Africa, a huge diamond heist in Belgium and the Prime […]

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Economics

Tax, transparency and a titanic fight for power

Published in The Independent (January 26th, 2013) Davos is a rather absurd jamboree– so important to those who attend it and so irrelevant to the rest of the […]

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Economics / Housing / Policy

We must make it easier to build homes in London

Published in the London Evening Standard (January 4th, 2013) There are plans for a handful of new houses in my neck of north London. It is a modest […]

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Economics

There’s something profoundly wrong with a nation where only the ‘little people’ pay taxes

Published in The Daily Mail (November 14th, 2012) Amazon, Starbucks and Google are three of the corporate giants that define our age. In the space of just a […]

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Arts / Books / Economics

Outrageous fortunes

Published in The Observer (November 4th, 2012) Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich by Chrystia Freeland (Allen Lane) Who is the richest person to have […]

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Economics / Environment / Policy / Politics

Tory retreat on climate change is senseless

Published in The Guardian (October 29th, 2012) The year after David Cameron became Tory party leader, he did something party leaders normally never do: he spoke at a […]

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Africa / Aid / Congo / Economics / Ethiopia / General / Ghana / Nigeria

Our image of Africa is hopelessly obsolete

Published in The Observer (26th August, 2012) Think of Ethiopia and what do you see. Perhaps a starving child, flies in her eyes and belly distended. Painfully thin adults […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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