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Politics

The double standards of sport

Published by The i paper (18th January, 2021) Maro Itoje went to Harrow, one of Britain’s most expensive private schools, before becoming a rugby superstar. But now he […]

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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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Covid19

World experts condemn WHO inquiry as a ‘charade’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th February, 2021) The World Health Organisation’s inquiry into the source of the pandemic is a ‘charade’ to appease China, leading experts […]

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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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Environment / Policy

Floating factories as big as football pitches plundering our seas and killing dolphins

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th December, 2020) The bodies of dolphins and porpoises have washed up with alarming frequency along England’s south coast in recent days. Some […]

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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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China / Covid19 / United States / World

Where is Wuhan virus researcher who was named as Patient Zero?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd August, 2020) The US government’s leading health research body has raised a series of bombshell concerns over the origins of the […]

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China / Covid19 / World

‘I had to flee my home and family to tell the world the truth about China’s cover-up before I became another of the disappeared’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th August, 2020) When Li-Meng Yan was asked to pop into her boss’s office on the final day of last year, she […]

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China / World

Beijing’s baby butchers

Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th July, 2020) When Amina Mamtimin became pregnant four years ago, she knew she must leave her country or the child would […]

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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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