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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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Inside a secret Ukrainian drone factory
Defence / Feature / Ukraine

Inside a secret Ukrainian drone factory

Published by UnHerd (21st May, 2025)

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My escape from China’s gulags after forced marriage to save my mother
China / Feature

My escape from China’s gulags after forced marriage to save my mother

Published by The Daily Mail (24th April, 2024) For brides around the world, their wedding day is meant to be a magic moment, often filled with family, friends […]

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The death of my beautiful daughter
Disability / Feature / Health

The death of my beautiful daughter

Published by The Daily Mail (February 8th, 2025) My daughter Iona was born 32 years ago. She arrived at home, in such a rush to enter the world […]

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Argentina’s much-mocked Milei might just get the last laugh
Argentina / Feature

Argentina’s much-mocked Milei might just get the last laugh

Published by The Washington Post (12th December, 2024)

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Escape from Putin’s child-snatchers
Feature / Russia / Ukraine

Escape from Putin’s child-snatchers

Published by The Daily Mail (5th December, 2024)

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‘Before the war, we saw Russians alive. Now we only see them dead’
Feature / Russia / Ukraine

‘Before the war, we saw Russians alive. Now we only see them dead’

Published by The Daily Mail (24th February, 2023) THE Ukrainian soldiers were hiding among the trees and buried in hobbit-like holes beneath the snow. But the Russian drones […]

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Feature / Serbia / Ukraine

The child snatcher

Published by The Daily Mail (27th October, 2022) The blonde woman in the polka-dot dress was clutching a huge teddy bear as she stood with a small group […]

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Europe / Feature / Russia / Ukraine

Russia’s monstrous new tactic: forcing Ukrainians to fight against their own side

Published by The Daily Mail (29th September, 2022) Oksana did not want her children indoctrinated by Russia after Vladimir Putin’s invading troops took over her village in southern Ukraine, […]

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Europe / Feature / Russia / Ukraine

Boxed in and snarling back – but this is Putin’s admission that his war is an astonishing blunder

Published by The Daily Mail (21st September, 2022) Vladimir Putin likes to tell a story about the lesson he learned as a child from a cornered rat that […]

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Feature / Health / Policy

The ugly truth about psychiatric care

Published by The i paper (15th November, 2021) It is more than three years since I wrote an angry piece in this publication telling the tale of a […]

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Feature / Politics

End the farce of MPs taking second jobs

Published by The i paper (8th November, 2021) Sir John Major was on fiery form interviewed over the weekend by the BBC, lashing out at the arrogant, corrupt […]

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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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