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China / Defence / Education / Policy / World

MI6 fears over UK university links to Beijing as at least 12 of them are probed by spooks

Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th February, 2012) (Written with Glen Owen, Political Editor) More than a dozen British universities are under investigation over commercial relationships with […]

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China / Covid19 / World

Virus ‘definitely’ began in China, say US scientists

Published by Mail on Sunday (31st January, 2021) The coronavirus pandemic definitely started in China, according to a scientific study that has traced the ‘mother’ of all Covid-19 […]

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China / Covid19 / World

It’ll be an unforgivable insult to two million dead if world lets China bury the truth

Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th January, 2021) It has taken 14 months since a sinister new disease emerged in Wuhan for the global health body responsible for […]

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China / Covid19 / United States / World

America points finger at China lab

Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th January, 2021) (Written with Glen Owen, Political Editor) The Chinese government is under growing pressure to reveal the true origins of […]

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United States / World

The Capitol riots reach beyond Trump

Published by The i paper (11th January, 2011) John McCain was one of the most decent Republican leaders this century. He was a man who proved his strength […]

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China / Covid19 / World

The world must investigate all the mounting evidence Covid could have leaked from a Wuhan laboratory

Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd January, 2021) It is a year since the world learned of a deadly new respiratory disease stalking the central Chinese city […]

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China / Covid19 / World

Just how low can China go?

Published by The Daily Mail (29th December, 2020) When a new disease erupted one year ago in Wuhan, a group of journalists and activists rushed to the central […]

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China / Covid19 / World

Will we ever learn the truth about China and the pandemic?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th December, 2020) Explosive emails from a group of top-level scientists and Government doctors in the United States reveal one suggested Covid-19 […]

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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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Aid / China / World

Sickening aid bungs to China’s repellent dictators must end

Published by The Daily Mail (25th November, 2020) You have probably never heard of Zhou Qiang but he is one of the key Communist Party leaders in China […]

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United States / World

Stoking divisions to the end

Published by The i paper (16th November, 2020) The crowd charged down the street. Then there were shouts, scuffles and some nasty-sounding thuds. As the police cleared 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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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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