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United States / World

Even populist politicians need to build bridges

Published by The i paper (20th February, 2017) Donald Trump can be accused of many things, but certainly not lack of ambition. The 45th president of the United […]

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United States / World

Dangerous delusions of The Donald

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th February, 2017) How much has Russia’s malevolent President Vladimir Putin influenced Donald Trump? For months this frightening suggestion has rattled around […]

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Crime / Policy

Our prisons shame the country

Published by The i paper (13th February, 2017) Prison reform struggled to win much attention in those sorely-missed days when news was dull and politics felt predictable. Who […]

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Aid / Politics

Behind the fine words, corruption festers

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th February, 2017) So now it is official: Adam Smith International, Britain’s biggest specialist aid contractor, engaged in dirty tricks to dupe […]

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Syria / World

Assad’s 21st century holocaust

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th February, 2017) Every day, the bodies were delivered to the hospital: battered beyond belief and hideously scarred from months of the […]

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Europe / Politics

My Tory Brexit friends should hang their heads in shame

Published by The Guardian (7th February, 2016) Ken Clarke has been in superb form since becoming the only Conservative MP with the bottle to vote against the Brexit […]

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Politics

Where is the Remain fightback?

Published by The i paper (6th February, 2017) A few weeks before the Brexit vote, Nigel Farage gave clear warning he would fight for a second referendum if […]

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Health / Policy

The shameful NHS cover-ups must cease

Published by The Daily Telegraph (2nd February, 2017) Joshua Titcombe was just nine days old when he died in 2008. His grieving parents discovered midwives repeatedly missed chances […]

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Politics / United States / World

The real cost of ‘Global Britain’

Published by The i paper (30th January, 2017) It is two decades since a newly-elected Labour government, riding a wave of heartfelt hope, proclaimed Britain would have an […]

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Politics

Theresa May’s rhetorical punch

Published by Politico (27th January, 2017) As someone who spends days churning out words for columns and foreign dispatches, I like to liven up copy with a few […]

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Politics

Corbyn’s drubbing illustrates the collapse of opposition in Britain

Published by The Daily Telegraph (25th January, 2017) The goal could hardly have been more open. Theresa May came to the despatch box having lost a landmark court […]

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Europe / United States

The new dawn of old nationalism

Published by The i paper (23rd January, 2017) On Friday morning, as the world prepared to see a former reality television star sworn in to office as the […]

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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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