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Is this the most dan­ger­ous man in Ger­many?
Defence / Europe / Germany / Immigration / Race

Is this the most dan­ger­ous man in Ger­many?

Published by The Daily Mail (21st August, 2026)

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Disability / Health / Social care / Welfare

Reform is taking aim at people with disabilities

Published by The i Paper (17th August, 2026) So here we go. Reform UK, desperate to shift focus away from legitimate questions about its financial shenanigans, wants to […]

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Crime / Politics

Badenoch’s mythical belief in rehabilitation

Published by The i Paper (10th August, 2026)

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Crime / Social care

Horror of the hidden illegal children’s homes

Published by The Daily Mail (8th August, 2026)

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Crime / Policy / Politics

Burnham’s priority should be prisons

Published by The i Paper (27th July, 2026)

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Inside the scam compounds run by Chinese gangs: Imprisoned ‘workers’ face horrific torture including being chained to a tiger’s cage, beaten with metal pipes and threatened with huge pythons
Crime / Technology / Thailand

Inside the scam compounds run by Chinese gangs: Imprisoned ‘workers’ face horrific torture including being chained to a tiger’s cage, beaten with metal pipes and threatened with huge pythons

Published by The Daily Mail (4th July, 2026)

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Business / Politics / Social care

How broken children became big business

Published by UnHerd (18th May, 2026) It is hard to think of a more grotesque example of state failure. A 15-year-old girl is taken into protective care to […]

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Crime / Police / Politics

Epsom riots expose moral abyss

Published by The i Paper (27th April, 2026)

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Defence / Ukraine

The vital lesson Britain must learn from Trump’s failure in Iran

Published by The i Paper (20th April, 2026)

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Drugs / Health

The failure of medical cannabis reform

Published by The i Paper (29th March, 2026)

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How the old clothes you give to charity shops or dump in donation bins end up in putrefying heaps on the shoreline of West Africa
Africa / Environment / Ghana

How the old clothes you give to charity shops or dump in donation bins end up in putrefying heaps on the shoreline of West Africa

Published by The Daily Mail (23rd March, 2026)

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Disability / Education / Social care

We are failing the people we should most support

Published by The i Paper (16th March, 2026)

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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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