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Covid19 / Economics

The older workers condemned by Covid

Published by UnHerd (21st August, 2020) Five months ago, Sandra Ackland became one of the millions of British workers furloughed after lockdown started. Her income fell by £400 […]

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Covid19 / Europe / Policy / Social care / Sweden

How Covid exposed the world’s lack of care

Published by UnHerd (14th August, 2020) Last week, I was in Sweden, investigating whether the nation’s strategy to avoid lockdown during a pandemic has been a success or […]

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Politics

Where have all the good politicians gone?

Published by UnHerd (1st July, 2020) Tony Blair has had the most successful career of any politician since Margaret Thatcher. He won three general elections, reshaped the country […]

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North Korea / South Korea / World

The defector taking on Kim Jong-un

Published by UnHerd (19th June, 2020) It was a cloudy July night with a full moon, shortly before midnight, when we arrived at our destination near the Han […]

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China / Covid19 / World

So where did Covid-19 come from?

Published by UnHerd (12th June, 2020) Last year, Yuan Zhiming published an article in the Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity confessing to concerns about high security laboratories in China. He […]

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Policy / Politics / Race / United States / World

The Republican Party’s descent into darkness

Published by UnHerd (4th June, 2020) On April 3, 1968 Martin Luther King gave a speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis. He spoke for 40 minutes without […]

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Covid19 / Health / Policy / Politics

Boris Johnson and the ravages of office

Published by UnHerd (13th May, 2020) The Government’s bid to soften lockdown was a communications disaster. The latest slogan makes little sense compared with the ‘Stay at Home’ […]

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China / Covid19 / World

How China is exploiting pandemic panic

Published by UnHerd (30th April, 2020) Who could argue with this statement on coronavirus made by Australia’s prime minister, Scott Morrison, as pandemic rampages around the planet? ‘This […]

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Covid19 / Disability / Immigration / Policy / Social care

Britain doesn’t care about social care

Published by UnHerd (22nd April, 2020) There are not many things to celebrate in these dark days of pandemic, but at least the crisis has finally forced people […]

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Africa / Covid19 / Nigeria / Uganda

Coronavirus will expose Africa’s tyrants

Published by UnHerd (9th April, 2020) When Muhammadu Buhari was elected president of Nigeria in 2015 — amid a wave of disgust towards the corruption that plagues his […]

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China / Covid19 / Health / Policy / World

The WHO has failed us again

Published by UnHerd (1st April, 2020) Like many doctors, Bruce Aylward has been working tirelessly since this coronavirus started its rampage around the planet, although his job takes […]

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China / Covid19 / Health / Policy / World

China is not the hero in this darkest hour

Published by UnHerd (23rd March, 2020) First came the virus — a parasitic germ so small that it cannot be seen by an optical microscope but so powerful […]

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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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