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Arts / Books / Health / Policy

We need to care about nurses

Published by The ipaper (24th December, 2018) She was a straight A student who had just become a teenager when paralysed from the neck down in a car […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

At 14, Jade was sent to hospital – and 13 years later they still won’t let her out

Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th December, 2018) Jade Hutchings was a child who adored acting and animals, friends and family. But she suffered from anxiety and […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Father of autistic girl treated like an animal and fed through a hatch sues NHS for torture and degradation

Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th December, 2018) The father of a teenage girl with autism locked for months in solitary confinement and fed through a hatch […]

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Technology / United States / World

‘Our faith will be lost if we adopt technology:’ can the Amish resist the modern world?

Published by The Guardian (15th December, 2018) Daniel Weaver does not vote, drive a car, read a paper, listen to music, watch sport of any kind, own a […]

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Politics

Has there ever been a bunch of more selfish politicians?

Published by The Guardian (12th December, 2018) It is hard not to conclude that the Tory hard right are intent on destroying their party and handing the country to […]

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Europe / European Union / Norway / Politics

Another defining week for our Brexit self-harm strategy

Published by The i paper (9th December, 2018) As I walked beside Gilets Jaunes protesters in Marseille on Saturday, I asked two simple questions: why were they here […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

MPs to investigate scandal of locked up youngsters with autism

Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th December, 2018) A parliamentary committee is to hold special sessions to investigate the scandal of youngsters with autism and learning disabilities […]

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Europe / France

French protests show Western democracies need rapid reform

Published by The i paper (3rd December, 2018) Paris is burning once again. Masked protesters have been tearing up paving stones, torching buildings, building barricades and setting vehicles […]

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Belgium / Europe / Health / Policy

Belgium’s Dr Death admits he has killed 140 patients – including two of his friends

Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd December, 2018) With his genial manner, check shirt and careful choice of words, Marc Van Hoey seems like any other general […]

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Africa / Aid / Uganda

Ugandan elite dipped into UK aid cash

Published by The Mail on Sunday (December 2nd, 2018) Tens of millions of pounds donated by British taxpayers and other countries to help refugees in Uganda have vanished into […]

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Aid / Disability

How charities are corrupted by Whitehall

Published by UnHerd (30th November, 2018) The National Health Service has been ordered to start looking into the deaths of patients in mental health units to learn from […]

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Europe / European Union / Politics

Dodo of a deal deserves to be made extinct

Published by The i paper (26th November, 2018) Amber Rudd has been back in the Cabinet for nine days, yet already there is talk she has joined ‘a […]

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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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