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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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Covid19

International experts ratchet pressure on China to probe the Covid lab leak theory

Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th May, 2021) Leading infectious disease experts have condemned the World Health Organisation for its failure to properly investigate whether Covid-19 leaked from […]

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China / Covid19 / World

Why China’s bid to woo the world with vaccines is backfiring

Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd May, 2021) China’s Covid-19 vaccines were developed fast, rolled out rapidly around the world and proclaimed by President Xi Jinping as a […]

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China / Covid19 / World

How scientists at Wuhan lab helped Chinese army in secret project to find animal viruses

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th April, 2021) Scientists studying bat diseases at China’s maximum-security laboratory in Wuhan were engaged in a massive project to investigate animal […]

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China / Covid19 / World

The Covid dissidents taking on China

Published by UnHerd (13th April, 2021) Feng Zijian played a central role in the World Health Organisation’s inquiry into the origins of Covid-19. The Chinese epidemiologist was one […]

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China / Covid19 / World

What a surprise: world health ‘experts’ have let China off the hook on Covid

Published by The Daily Mail (31st March, 2021) More than 420 days have passed since the World Health Organisation declared that a strange new disease killing people in […]

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China / Covid19 / United States / World

‘A lab leak isn’t 100% certain but it seems to be the only logical source of Covid’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th March, 2021) A cluster of researchers from China’s secretive Wuhan laboratories fell sick with ‘Covid-like’ symptoms at least six weeks before […]

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Covid19 / Politics

The dangerous naivety of Green anti-vaxxers

Published by UnHerd (15th March, 2021) When I was at university more than three decades ago, the environment began to take off as a fashionable cause. Acid rain […]

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Covid19 / Health / Policy

Should the state enforce vaccination?

Published by The i paper (1st March, 2021) Britain’s vaccine programme has been a stellar success, all the more welcome after the disasters leading to our dreadful pandemic […]

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Covid19 / Health / Policy

Why the reluctance among some ethnic minorities to have Covid jabs?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th February, 2021) Jama is a driver who, before the pandemic, ferried people but he now delivers parcels. He is a Somali […]

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China / Covid19 / World

Beijing in row over ‘cover-up of Wuhan death toll’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st February, 2021) Disturbing Chinese government statistics reveal a huge drop in the number of old people receiving state payments in Hubei […]

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Arts / Covid19

Don’t ignore the country’s cash cow

Published by The i paper (15th February, 2021) It is easy to forget London used to be a city in perpetual crisis, a symbol of national decline in […]

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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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