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Covid19 / Politics

The PM is hopelessly out of his depth

Published by The i paper (21st December, 2020) Last week was another long one in Westminster. On Monday Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, warned us about an alarming […]

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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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Africa / Aid / Covid19 / Nigeria

Aid charities miss the point with call for free Covid jabs

Published by The Times (10th December, 2020) Amid the joy at seeing the first elderly Britons inoculated against Covid-19, a group called the People’s Vaccine Alliance popped up […]

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Covid19 / Europe / Finland

How Finland became a Covid success

Published by UnHerd (7th December, 2020) Two days before the Tories won their thumping general election victory last year, a new government was formed in Finland. Sanna Marin […]

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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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Covid19 / Feature / Health / Policy

The toxic British worship of the NHS

Published by UnHerd (2nd December, 2020) When Michael Gove sought to shore up support for the Government’s polices on lockdown, he invoked the most sacred idol in the […]

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Africa / Covid19

The lockdown conundrum

Published by The i paper (12th October, 2020) As the nights darken, coronavirus cases surge and job losses soar, the debate over how best to respond to this […]

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Arts / Covid19 / Economics / Music

The music industry has been left to die

Published by UnHerd (12th October, 2020) After more than a decade in the music business, Georgia Barnes was on the brink of stardom at the start of this […]

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Belarus / Covid19 / Europe

What can we learn about lockdowns from the country whose dictator told them to fight Covid by drinking vodka?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th September, 2020) As the sun slid from the evening sky over Minsk, clusters of people thronged the imposing entrance of the Bolshoi […]

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Covid19 / Europe / Politics / Sweden

Trust: the missing ingredient in our pandemic response

Published by The i paper (14th September, 2020) Boris Johnson hailed ‘a new dawn’ for Britain after winning an election based on the slogan that he would get […]

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Africa / Covid19 / Uganda

Africa’s catastrophic Covid response

Published by UnHerd (11th September, 2020) As Covid-19 began to sweep across the planet earlier this year, the warnings about the disease’s impact on Africa were terrifying. The […]

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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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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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