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Crime / Europe / Norway / Policy

How Norway’s calm prisons shame the UK system

Published by The i paper (11th June, 2024) Tootie is serving a five-year jail sentence after being caught dealing drugs in Oslo. Yet he smiles as he tells […]

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Policy / Politics / Sport

Starmer’s pitch at normality

Published by The i paper (3rd July, 2024) The reports make the game sound almost professional. Whites took the lead when a “fine, flowing movement” ended with Mark […]

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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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Defence / Policy / Politics

Sunak’s not so cunning plan

Published by The i paper (27th May, 2024) Right you ‘orrible lot, fall in. Our forces are staring defeat in the face. Our officers look useless. Their strategies […]

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Health / Policy

None of the NHS scandals I have written about for decades matches the scale of tragedy and the callous deceit in the tainted blood affair

Published by The Daily Mail (21st May, 2024) Colin Smith, a boy who had developed a bruise on his knee a few months after his birth, was the […]

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Defence / Europe / Policy / Russia / Ukraine

West must wake up to Putin danger

Published by The i paper (13th May, 2024) Historians will look back in bafflement at the gullibility of Western leaders in their response to Vladimir Putin. When this […]

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Disability / Policy / Social care / Welfare

People with learning disabilities need ministers’ support

Published by The Times (30th April, 2024) There is a valid debate to be had over disability benefits after a sudden surge in claimants with anxiety and depression. […]

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Health / Policy

Trans teenagers are being failed

Published by The i paper (16th April, 2024) Jason Pulman was the oldest of five children, a talented artist who ‘‘loved all the silliness in the world and […]

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Disability / Health / Policy / Social care

Britain’s sordid human rights scandal

Published by The i paper (25th March, 2024) During my journalistic career I have spoken to traumatised people around the world suffering terrible consequences of war, earthquakes and […]

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Canada / Drugs / Policy / World

The children killed by fentanyl

Published by UnHerd (13th March, 2024) “I never thought this would happen to Reese, but you have to get it through to people that it can happen to […]

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Covid19 / Education / Health / Policy

How Edinburgh University stifled my investigation

Published by UnHerd (19th January, 2024) Almost 150 years ago, a young medical student at Edinburgh University was inspired by one of his lecturers to devise a detective […]

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Health / Policy

A strike to shatter the idea medics are deified protectors of the ‘sacred’ NHS

Published by The Daily Mail (3rd January, 2024) A profession that pledges, ‘First, do no harm’ should have ethical qualms about risking patients’ welfare. But last year, 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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