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How billionaires, celebrities and Arab sheikhs are making vast profits from the human misery of Britain’s chaotic children’s homes
Business / Social care

How billionaires, celebrities and Arab sheikhs are making vast profits from the human misery of Britain’s chaotic children’s homes

Published by The Daily Mail (4th September, 2025)

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The team powered by bitcoin that could change football for ever
Feature / Sport / Technology

The team powered by bitcoin that could change football for ever

Published by The Sunday Times (3rd August, 2025)

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Is the sun setting on tourism to the US?
Business / Economics / United States

Is the sun setting on tourism to the US?

Published by The i paper (21st April, 2025) Route 66, cutting through the heart of the United States from Illinois to California, offers drivers one of the world’s […]

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Business / China / World

Ministers must rein in the vultures

Published by The i paper (14th April, 2025) The emergency rescue of British Steel is a significant moment for this government, highlighted by the first Saturday sitting of […]

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Aid / Economics / World

Trump signals the end of globalisation

Published by The i paper (7th April, 2025) I am writing these words on a computer that was made in China for an American company. Later, I will […]

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Books / Media / Technology

The nerdy obsessive who became the world’s richest man

Published by The Spectator (8th February, 2025) Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates (Allen Lane) Shortly before Bill Gates’s seventh birthday in 1962, his parents stuffed their […]

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Technology / United States

Democracy dies in darkness

Published by The i paper (29th October, 2024) Olivia Troye is a lifelong Republican who worked as a counter-terrorism adviser in Donald Trump’s administration. She resigned shortly before […]

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Economics / Europe / Germany / Policy / Transport

Why Germany is stuck in the slow lane

Published by UnHerd (19th October , 2024) The three-piece band was doing its best to lift spirits with relentlessly upbeat pop songs and bursts of oompah music as […]

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Economics / Europe / Russia / Ukraine

How Ukrainians are learning to adapt to their wartime economy

Published by The i paper (6th August, 2024) Life seemed good for Vadym Liski before the arrival of war. His cardboard factory, recycling mountains of waste and employing […]

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Africa / Aid / Economics / Kenya / Technology

The African village mining Bitcoin

Published by UnHerd (5th January, 2024) Bondo is a scattered cluster of villages in a remote region of Malawi near the border with Mozambique. It sits in the […]

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China / Economics / Sri Lanka / World

China’s sinister plot to gain a stranglehold on key global ports

Published by The Daily Mail (21st November, 2023) Earlier this year David Cameron arrived on the tropical island of Sri Lanka. But he was not there to join […]

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Economics / Europe / Russia

Double standards of ‘caring capitalism’

Published by The i paper (31st July, 2023) Ben & Jerry’s is a company that exists to sell vast quantities of highly calorific ice-cream around the world. It […]

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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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