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Ian Birrell

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Disability / Health / Policy

Why are we locking up patients for profit?

Published by UnHerd (15th January, 2020) Claire Greaves was a young woman with anorexia and a personality disorder. She spoke candidly and courageously to broadcasters about her struggles; on […]

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Disability / Health / Policy / Social care

Life appears to be cheap if you have learning disabilities

Published by The Times (26th December, 2018) It is hard to imagine someone dying from gangrene in London, their flat stinking from rotting flesh. Yet this is precisely […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

So many deaths by indifference

Published by The i paper (7th May, 2018) On Friday morning, as the nation woke up to local election results, a report was slipped out by the National […]

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Health / Policy

The £240k health boss who sums up what’s wrong with our NHS

Published by The Daily Mail (1st September, 2016) As the boss of a public organisation employing 9,000 staff, Katrina Percy loved to boast about her skills and her […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Grieving mother branded ‘vindictive cow’ and a culture of NHS arrogance

Published by The Daily Mail (6th May, 2016) Surely it is impossible to imagine the twisted inhumanity of someone who would pick up the phone to a bereaved […]

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Health / Policy

A sickness at the heart of the NHS

Published by The Independent (14th December, 2015) Two weeks ago I went to a journalism awards ceremony at which the speaker was a man who blew the whistle […]

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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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