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China / Taiwan / World

Give Taiwan the same support as Ukraine

Published by The i paper (29th August, 2022) Three months into the pandemic, a senior official at the World Health Organisation was asked on video link by a […]

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China / Economics / Taiwan / Technology / World

Why we should all pray China does not invade Taiwan

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th August, 2022) The fertile fields surrounding Tainan, the former capital of Taiwan famed for its fireflies, food and hundreds of historic […]

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China / Taiwan / World

Facing down the Dragon in ‘the most dangerous place on Earth’

Published by The Daily Mail (23rd August, 2022) Kneeling on the floor, Kate Wang pressed a bandage to stem the flow of blood from a nasty-looking wound, while […]

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Health / Policy / Technology

Could digitisation help revive the NHS?

Published by The i paper (22nd August, 2022) I went to Tallinn earlier this month to report on Estonia’s remarkable embrace of digital government. This Baltic nation has […]

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Drugs / Policy

Westminster is addicted to drug prohibition

Published by The i paper (15th August, 2022) Rishi Sunak likes to joke that he is a coke addict. He has even admitted he is hooked on Mexican […]

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Estonia / Europe / Technology

Is this the way to stop Britain being strangled by red tape?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th August, 2022) Across the world, there is deep disenchantment with governments, whether they are democracies marooned in political ineptitude or corrupt […]

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Technology / United States / World

Our age of false prophets

Published by The i paper (8th August, 2022) Nine days after Donald Trump was ousted from the White House by voters in the US, I found myself reporting […]

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Health / Policy

Inside Britain’s psychiatric nightmare

Published by UnHerd (2nd August, 2022) There were still grim Victorian-era asylums dotted around Britain when Penelope Campling started out as a young psychiatrist almost 40 years ago. […]

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Politics

Sunak’s missed opportunity

Published by The i paper (1st August, 2022) The bandwagon is rolling for Liz Truss as ballot papers go out to Tory members who will choose our next […]

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Europe / Russia

Traumatised mums say their sons who refuse to fight for Kremlin held in torture pits

Published by The Mail on Sunday (31st July, 2022) MAKSIM Kochetkov is being held captive in a penal colony 6,000 miles from his home on an island near […]

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Politics

The sooner Johnson leaves the stage, the better

Published by The i paper (25th July 2022) When Boris Johnson visited an army base in Yorkshire last week, the message he was sending could not have been […]

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Arts / Music

Britain’s music is being silenced by ministerial failure

Published by The Times (20th July, 2022) Britain does not have many world-leading industries but our music business is most definitely one, relentlessly churning out hits and stars […]

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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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