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Business / Media / Technology

We need to rein in the tech titans

Published by The i Paper (22nd December, 2025)

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Disability / Economics / Politics

The welfare bill is ballooning – and our pathetic politicians are to blame

Published by The i Paper (28th November, 2025)

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Business / Economics / Politics

Reeves is flailing – but she is a symbol of a deeper rot in Westminster

Published by The i Paper (17th November, 2025)

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Gen Z protests show older generations have failed them
Africa / Nepal / Technology / World

Gen Z protests show older generations have failed them

Published by The i Paper (13th October, 2025)

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Economics / Norway

Wealth taxes are making Norway poorer

Published by UnHerd (9th September, 2025)

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How billionaires, celebrities and Arab sheikhs are making vast profits from the human misery of Britain’s chaotic children’s homes
Business / Social care

How billionaires, celebrities and Arab sheikhs are making vast profits from the human misery of Britain’s chaotic children’s homes

Published by The Daily Mail (4th September, 2025)

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The team powered by bitcoin that could change football for ever
Feature / Sport / Technology

The team powered by bitcoin that could change football for ever

Published by The Sunday Times (3rd August, 2025)

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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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Books / Media / Technology

The nerdy obsessive who became the world’s richest man

Published by The Spectator (8th February, 2025) Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates (Allen Lane) Shortly before Bill Gates’s seventh birthday in 1962, his parents stuffed their […]

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Technology / United States

Democracy dies in darkness

Published by The i paper (29th October, 2024) Olivia Troye is a lifelong Republican who worked as a counter-terrorism adviser in Donald Trump’s administration. She resigned shortly before […]

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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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