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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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Aid / Economics / World

Trump signals the end of globalisation

Published by The i paper (7th April, 2025) I am writing these words on a computer that was made in China for an American company. Later, I will […]

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Covid19

Deafening silence of Labour’s Lord Covid

Published by The Mail on Sunday (April 5th, 2025) Patrick Vallance loves to pontificate on the importance of transparency in science, peppering his speeches and interviews with grandiose […]

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Canada / Politics / United States

Trump is shattering the political right

Published by The i paper (31st March, 2025) There is not much to celebrate looking around the world today, seeing the continuing bloodshed in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan through […]

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The judge who could save democracy
United States / World

The judge who could save democracy

Published by The i paper (24th March, 2025) It is hard to think of many people less likely to be a “rogue activist” engaged in far-left attempts to […]

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Why Labour’s science minister Patrick Vallance must come clean on what he knew about the Wuhan lab leak theory he was so quick to rubbish
Covid19 / Policy / Politics

Why Labour’s science minister Patrick Vallance must come clean on what he knew about the Wuhan lab leak theory he was so quick to rubbish

Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd March, 2025) Five years ago, as our country reeled under the Covid-19 pandemic, the scientific interventions of Patrick Vallance made him a […]

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‘There was a real conspiracy among very powerful scientists. The cover-up was morally repugnant’
Covid19

‘There was a real conspiracy among very powerful scientists. The cover-up was morally repugnant’

Published by The Daily Mail (17th March, 2025) Soon after the start of the pandemic, as Covid-19 spread its trail of death and devastation around the planet, I came […]

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Former CDC boss reveals bombshell new evidence of Covid cover-up and says ‘father of the virus’ Fauci concealed Wuhan lab leak to protect US spies embedded in China
Covid19

Former CDC boss reveals bombshell new evidence of Covid cover-up and says ‘father of the virus’ Fauci concealed Wuhan lab leak to protect US spies embedded in China

Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th March, 2025) Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) when the pandemic erupted, has […]

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‘Do we need nuclear arms and conscription?’ How some Canadians now fear a US invasion
Canada / United States

‘Do we need nuclear arms and conscription?’ How some Canadians now fear a US invasion

Published by The i paper (13th March, 2025) The comedian Robin Williams used to say that Canadians were the kindest people in the world but had the misfortune to […]

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Africa / Aid / Politics / Rwanda

Starmer should tell the truth about foreign aid

Published by The i paper (9th March, 2025) Sir Keir Starmer has had a good few days, displaying adroitness as he sought to navigate an upended global order in […]

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Welcome to the Divided States of America
United States

Welcome to the Divided States of America

Published by The i paper (5th March, 2025) It does not take long to find the United States fissures exposed by their President. Outside a supermarket, an elderly […]

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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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