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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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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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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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Covid19 / Europe / Health / Holland / Policy / Sweden / Turkey / World

Pandemic lessons from other places

Published by The i paper (10th August, 2020) I have resumed my job as a foreign reporter following a four-month break. It was a strange experience as I […]

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Covid19 / Europe / Health / Policy / Sweden

Sweden was pilloried by the whole world for refusing to lock down. But was it right?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th August, 2020) As she sat dangling her legs over the water while waiting for the ferry back to Stockholm, Carolinne Liden […]

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Covid19 / Europe / Holland

The land with no face masks

Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd August, 2020) As I walked around the sun-dappled streets of Amsterdam, something felt strange in this world swept by fear and […]

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China / Covid19 / World

China would kill me for revealing the truth about Covid cover-up

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th July, 2020) A Chinese scientist who fled Hong Kong says she is putting her life in danger to warn the world […]

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Covid19 / Disability / Health / Policy

A very deadly inequality

Published by The i paper (6th July, 2020) The investment guru Warren Buffet famously said that only when the tide goes out do you see who has been […]

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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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China / Covid19 / World

New evidence of how Beijing covered up outbreak

Published by The Mail on Sunday (June 7th 2020) Fresh evidence of China’s shocking cover-up of the pandemic outbreak has been found in censored media reports from Wuhan. Samples […]

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China / Covid19 / World

Beijing now admits virus didn’t start in market. So where did it come from?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (31st May, 2020) China has become used to public confessions on television. But this time the words came from one of the […]

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Covid19 / Politics

Pandemic, power and a prime minister’s hubris

Published by The i paper (25th May, 2020) The strange thing about politics is how stories about one person’s behaviour can detonate like a lethal missile as they […]

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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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