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Disability / Health / Policy

Father of autistic girl treated like an animal and fed through a hatch sues NHS for torture and degradation

Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th December, 2018) The father of a teenage girl with autism locked for months in solitary confinement and fed through a hatch […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

MPs to investigate scandal of locked up youngsters with autism

Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th December, 2018) A parliamentary committee is to hold special sessions to investigate the scandal of youngsters with autism and learning disabilities […]

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Belgium / Europe / Health / Policy

Belgium’s Dr Death admits he has killed 140 patients – including two of his friends

Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd December, 2018) With his genial manner, check shirt and careful choice of words, Marc Van Hoey seems like any other general […]

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Economics / Immigration / Policy / Politics

May has proved she can’t be trusted over immigration

Published by The Times (20th November, 2018) Theresa May has been clear about one thing from the start on Brexit: she saw the referendum result as an endorsement […]

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Health / Policy

Harriet Harman challenges the section of autistic patients

Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th November, 2018) Harriet Harman is leading a chorus of alarm from MPs over the scandal of youngsters with autism who are […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Profiteers of misery

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th November, 2018) A cluster of ‘fat cat’ private operators is creaming off hundreds of millions of pounds from the NHS after […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Shut away and threatened like animals

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) When Adele Green saw her 13-year-old son Eddie after his first month in a specialist hospital supposed to be […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Scandal of autistic youngsters locked in solitary confinement

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) Hundreds of people with autism and learning disabilities are being locked up in appalling conditions, routinely abused and stuffed […]

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Crime / Drugs / Policy

Britain’s police are waking up to the futility of the war on drugs

Published by CapX (23rd October, 2018) Few people would have expected Bernard Hogan-Howe to become the nation’s latest outspoken campaigner for review of our drug laws. Yet this […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Animals would not be treated this badly

Published by The i paper (22nd October, 2018) Stephanie Bincliffe left school at 16 and lived for two years on her own with help of a full-time carer. […]

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Drugs / Policy

Is it time to legalise cannabis, asks former Met chief?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st October, 2018) Former Scotland Yard chief Bernard Hogan-Howe has called on the Government to set up an urgent review to examine […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Bedlam is still with us in Britain

Published by The i paper (8th October, 2018) Bethany is 17 years old. She is a girl who likes Bob Marley’s music, spending time with animals and being […]

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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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