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Africa / Aid / Europe / Immigration / Policy / Politics

No minister – our billions in foreign aid make it more likely migrants come here

Published by The Daily Mail (11th August, 2015) With every passing day, it becomes harder to have confidence in the Government’s flailing response to the tide of humanity […]

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Aid / Economics / Europe / Immigration / Policy / Politics

The inconvenient truth about migrants

Published by The Independent (10th August, 2015) Halima was from Yarmouk, a suburb of Damascus besieged by both Syrian government and Islamic State forces. She was travelling with […]

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Politics

Vote Corbyn to help Labour get over its left-wing fantasy

Published by The Independent (2nd August, 2015) The Labour leadership campaign has turned into one of the unexpected delights of the summer, a farce so absurd that even […]

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Drugs / Police / Policy / Politics

Slowly but surely, the West is coming down from the hallucinatory war on drugs

Published by The Independent (27th July, 2015) The stench of hypocrisy has long hung over the drugs debate. Politicians joke about their own use, then talk tough about […]

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Politics

David Cameron’s secret weapon against jihadis

Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th July, 2015) It was billed as one of David Cameron’s most important speeches since entering Downing Street, with tough talk on […]

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Aid / Politics

Britain cuts at home, but splashes cash abroad

Published by The Daily Telegraph (23rd July, 2015) The message from George Osborne is clear: Whitehall must slash spending again to find another £20bn in savings. Most government […]

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Iraq / Politics / Syria / World

Britain should beware sliding back into Middle Eastern war

Published by The Independent (20th July, 2015) Slowly but surely, Britain is being dragged back into wider military intervention in the Middle East. For months, the ground has been […]

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Politics / Technology

Infuriating and self-righteous, but we’d miss the BBC

Published by The Independent (13th July, 2015) Five months ago the House of Commons Culture Committee issued an important report into the future of the BBC, seen as […]

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Politics

Is Tim Farron really a liberal at all?

Published by The Guardian (25th June, 2015) It has been largely forgotten, but two of the nation’s major political parties are now engaged in leadership contests. While the […]

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Crime / Policy / Politics

Crime chiefs warn 750,000 British men may be attracted to children

Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st June, 2015) Up to 750,000 men living in Britain may have an interest in having sex with children, the Government has […]

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Politics / United States / World

Brothers in arms – but Bush and Blair take divergent paths now

Published by The Independent (9th June, 2015) When he left the White House in early 2009 and headed back to Dallas, few people were sad to see George […]

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Aid / Politics

Why is David Cameron handing out £12bn of our money to foreign thieves, dictators and charlatans?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th June, 2015) Dear Prime Minister It is a decade since we began striving together to transform the Conservative Party into a […]

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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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