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Health / Politics

Private healthcare tax is populist nonsense

Published by The i paper (6th August, 2025)

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An academic, an arrogant minister and a fight for equality that has gone horribly wrong
Disability / Health

An academic, an arrogant minister and a fight for equality that has gone horribly wrong

Published by The i paper (4th August, 2025)

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Health

Doctors’ union should be defeated

Published by The i paper (25th July, 2025)

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Assisted dying is a slippery slope
Health

Assisted dying is a slippery slope

Published by The i paper (23rd June, 2024)

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Health

Militant medics are destroying the NHS

Published by UnHerd (4th July, 2025)

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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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Education / Health / Policy / Politics

Schools offer a lesson on Labour’s confusion

Published by The i paper (9th January, 2025)

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Disability / Health / Policy

There is nothing compassionate or progressive about assisted dying

Published by The i paper (2nd December, 2024) The impassioned debate on assisted suicide last Friday has been widely hailed as a display of Parliament at its best. […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Assisted suicide is dangerous

Published by The i paper (25th November, 2024) This week sees a five-hour debate in Parliament that could lead to one of the most consequential laws this century […]

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Covid19 / Health / Policy

Covid lies and the stench of elitist arrogance

Published by The i paper (30th September, 2024) Boris Johnson is publishing his memoir, timed to coincide with the Conservative Party conference, in his usual attention-seeking manner and written […]

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Disability / Health / Policy / Social care

Private greed corroding our care system

Published by The i paper (29th July, 2024) Annette and Kevin Maxwell will never know the extent of the abuse suffered by their son Jonah at his residential […]

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Canada / Health / Policy / World

‘I was offered assisted dying over cancer treatment’

Published by UnHerd (30th May, 2024) Two years ago, over the Thanksgiving holiday, Allison Ducluzeau started to feel pain in her stomach. At first, she assumed she had […]

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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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