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Afghanistan / Defence / Feature / Policy / World

Our troops are doing their best. But Kabul shows how impotent we are without America

Published by The Daily Mail (25th August, 2021) There are few institutions that can still unite our nation in uncritical admiration after a series of scandals challenged our […]

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Afghanistan / Feature / Iraq / United States / World

The sickening hypocrisy of Bush, Blair and the war on terror

Published by The i paper (9th August, 2021) Twenty years after lethal attacks turned aircraft into weapons and sparked the so-called war on terror, the US has slunk […]

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Covid19 / Feature / Technology

Why won’t The Lancet admit it was wrong?

Published by UnHerd (6th July, 2021) Someone needs to tell The Lancet the most basic tenet of crisis management: when in a hole, stop digging. Instead, this world-renowned medical journal […]

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Feature / Immigration / Policy / Race

Winners, on and off the pitch

Published by The i paper (5th July, 2021) One by one, the institutions that bind our country stumbled. We saw our collective faith in the banks, BBC, church, […]

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Covid19 / Feature / Technology

Head of Wellcome Trust accused of ‘chilling’ bid to stifle debate on lab leak theory

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th June, 2021) Shortly before the pandemic, Sir Jeremy Farrar, head of the globally respected Wellcome Trust, delivered a speech offering his […]

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China / Covid19 / Feature / World

What a Wuhan lab leak would really mean

Published by UnHerd (26th May, 2021) It has taken 17 months since the new coronavirus supposedly erupted, but the lab leak hypothesis has finally come in from the […]

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Feature / Politics

If you thought Brexit was fraught…

Published by The i paper (10th May, 2021) One of many curiosities about last week’s elections was the unusual success of incumbents. Historically, such events have been a […]

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China / Covid19 / Feature / World

Is China hiding the truth about Covid?

Published by The i paper (7th December, 2020) Suddenly we can look forward to the future with some flickers of optimism. Three successful vaccines against Covid-19 have been […]

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Covid19 / Feature / Health / Policy

The toxic British worship of the NHS

Published by UnHerd (2nd December, 2020) When Michael Gove sought to shore up support for the Government’s polices on lockdown, he invoked the most sacred idol in the […]

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Drugs / Feature / Policy / United States / World

Has America changed its mind about drugs?

Published by UnHerd (12th November, 2020) If there is one thing that pretty much everyone in the United States can agree on, it is that their mighty nation […]

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Voyage of the damned
Africa / Aid / Europe / Feature / Immigration / Libya / Policy

Voyage of the damned

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th July, 2015) Shortly after breakfast I spotted a blob on the horizon across the sparkling Mediterranean sea. Within minutes came confirmation: […]

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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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