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China / Covid19 / World

China pushed to open up labs as Covid leak theory gains support

Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th August, 2021) China is coming under pressure to share data and open up its virus research centres in Wuhan to proper […]

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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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China / Covid19 / World

China should not veto a pandemic origins inquiry

Published by The i paper (26th July, 2021) Just imagine if a strange new virus emerged suddenly in Salisbury, with residents of the medieval Wiltshire town starting to […]

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China / Covid19 / Health / Policy / World

China’s first virus cover-up

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th July, 2021) Towards the end of 2002, several chefs and animal traders in the southern Chinese coastal province of Guangdong fell […]

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Arts / Music / North Korea / South Korea / World

15 years in a slave labour camp – just for listening to pop music in North Korea

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th July, 2021) Three years ago, North Korea’s ‘Supreme Leader’ Kim Jong Un clapped along to songs at a concert by famous pop […]

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Crime / Policy / United States / World

What’s killing New Orleans?

Published by UnHerd (5th July, 2021) Portia Pollock was 60 years old when she was murdered outside her home. She was a physical therapist who loved working with […]

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China / World

Orwellian repression is stamping out the last flickers of freedom in Hong Kong

Published by The Daily Mail (24th June, 2021) When Jimmy Lai was a child, he worked as a porter carrying bags for passengers at the railway station in […]

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Arts / Books / Drugs / Policy / United States / World

An addiction catastrophe

Published by The Spectator (12th June, 2021) Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Picador) Last week I was staying in a cool hotel in […]

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China / World

China’s Communists cannot gloss over their history

Published by The i paper (7th June, 2021) President Xi Jinping has declared that he wants to rebrand China as a ‘credible, lovable and respectable’ country that is […]

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Travel / United States / World

Rocket Man vs the Earthlings

Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th June, 2021) There cannot be many more idyllic spots for those seeking the quiet life than Boca Chica, which sits on […]

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China / Covid19 / World

Is ‘Patient Su’ Covid’s Patient Zero?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (30th May, 2021) A mistake by a leading Chinese official may have disclosed the name, address and details about one of the […]

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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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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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