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Inside a secret Ukrainian drone factory
Defence / Feature / Ukraine

Inside a secret Ukrainian drone factory

Published by UnHerd (21st May, 2025)

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Disability / Policy / Social care

Why does this government seem to dislike people with disabilities?

Published by The i paper (19th May, 2025)

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Russia / Ukraine / United States

Lasting peace remains a distant hope

Published by The i paper (12th May, 2025)

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Agree to 30-day truce or face new sanctions, Starmer and Europe’s top leaders tell Kremlin
Russia / Ukraine

Agree to 30-day truce or face new sanctions, Starmer and Europe’s top leaders tell Kremlin

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th May, 2025) Sir Keir Starmer joined the leaders of France, Germany and Poland in Kyiv yesterday in a bid to ramp […]

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India / Pakistan

Closer to calamity: dangerous rivalries simmer once again

Published by The i paper (8th May, 2025) Six years ago, Mike Pompeo was serving as secretary of state in Donald Trump’s first administration when he was woken […]

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Politics

Reform is about to be put under the microscope

Published by The i paper (5th May, 2025) Zia Yusuf, the chairman of Reform UK, has been busy in the media boasting about his party’s success in the […]

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United States

History will not be kind to Trump’s shameful sycophants

Published by The i paper (1st May, 2025) Barely two weeks after Donald Trump’s return to the White House, a Republican congresswoman called Anna Paulina Luna put forward […]

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Another piece of theatre from Trump
Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Another piece of theatre from Trump

Published by The i paper (28th April, 2025) Certainly the picture was historic: two presidents, seated in simple chairs amid the magnificence of St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

These attacks on Kyiv are proof Putin is emboldened by US appeasement

Published by The Daily Mail (25th April, 2025) It is 11 years since I watched Russian troops stripped of military insignia seize Ukrainian army bases in Crimea, while […]

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My escape from China’s gulags after forced marriage to save my mother
China / Feature

My escape from China’s gulags after forced marriage to save my mother

Published by The Daily Mail (24th April, 2024) For brides around the world, their wedding day is meant to be a magic moment, often filled with family, friends […]

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Is the sun setting on tourism to the US?
Business / Economics / United States

Is the sun setting on tourism to the US?

Published by The i paper (21st April, 2025) Route 66, cutting through the heart of the United States from Illinois to California, offers drivers one of the world’s […]

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Business / China / World

Ministers must rein in the vultures

Published by The i paper (14th April, 2025) The emergency rescue of British Steel is a significant moment for this government, highlighted by the first Saturday sitting of […]

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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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