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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

One woman’s story is a reminder of our duty to Ukraine

Published by The i paper (18th December, 2023) The chilly winds of appeasement blow through the West as Ukrainians shed blood in their epochal battle between democracy and […]

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Immigration / Policy / Politics / Social care

Sunak predicted his party’s downfall

Published by The i paper (11th December, 2023) Rishi Sunak was right about one thing when he won the top job little more than a year ago. Declaring […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Today most Ukrainians have seven family members or friends who have been killed or injured

Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd December, 2023) The scene seemed typical of any European capital: a woman sipping fruit tea while chatting amid the bustle of […]

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Russia / Ukraine

Ukraine needs arms, not appeasement of Putin

Published by The i paper (27th November, 2023) Two days after arriving back in Kyiv, I woke to familiar sounds of war as Ukraine’s capital suffered its heaviest […]

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China / North Korea / World

How to escape North Korea

Published by UnHerd (21st November, 2023) When Kim Seungeun first visited North Korea, he saw a barren land devastated by famine, its trees stripped by people desperate to […]

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China / Economics / Sri Lanka / World

China’s sinister plot to gain a stranglehold on key global ports

Published by The Daily Mail (21st November, 2023) Earlier this year David Cameron arrived on the tropical island of Sri Lanka. But he was not there to join […]

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Europe / Israel, West Bank & Gaza / Russia / Ukraine / United States / World

The wars in Gaza and Ukraine are different

Published by The i paper (20th November, 2023) From the moment Hamas terrorists went on their murderous rampage in Israel, Joe Biden sought to tie together two seismic […]

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Politics

A desperate appointment as Tories lurch back to the centre from the far-right abyss

Published by The i paper (14th November, 2023) David Cameron is back in frontline politics. These are words I never expected to write. His return as Foreign Secretary […]

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Disability / Housing / Policy / Politics

How can a Labour MP block flats for people with learning disabilities?

Published by The i paper (13th November, 2023) In a Westminster world stuffed with ambitious party hacks and entitled creeps who see compassion as a dirty word, the […]

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Denmark / Europe / Greenland

What kind of nation forcibly sterilises girls as young as 12 to cut welfare bills?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th November, 2023) Like many teenagers, 15-year-old Arnaq took a part-time job in a local shop to earn some money. Appallingly, though, […]

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Covid19 / Disability / Health / Policy

Contempt for ordinary people in the corridors of power

Published by The i paper (6th November, 2023) The Covid inquiry last week performed an invaluable service. It seemed as if we were watching a savage new political satire […]

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Israel, West Bank & Gaza / Politics / World

Timid leaders could learn from Thatcher on dealing with a crisis in Israel

Published by The i paper (30th October, 2023) Two years after becoming prime minister, Margaret Thatcher gave an interview to The Jewish Chronicle about her forceful condemnation of an […]

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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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