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Can Steve Hilton save California?
United States

Can Steve Hilton save California?

Published by UnHerd (14th June, 2025)

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United States

The city weaponised by Trump against the Democrats

Published by The i paper (30th October, 2024) The candidate in his crisp white shirt reeled off his three priorities to the crowd of voters crammed into a […]

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United States / World

California nightmare

Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd May, 2021) Scott Thatcher and his wife Angela were born in California and love the sun-kissed Golden State. But two months ago […]

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Drugs / Mexico / Policy / World

Mexico’s futile war on drugs

Published by UnHerd (16th March, 2020) The early morning raids were carefully calibrated. Teams of heavily-armed agents donned protective gear in the darkness, then struck at homes in […]

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United States / World

Where the American dream goes to die

Published by UnHerd (2nd March, 2020) For a few years at the start of this century, Juan Nevarez tasted the American dream. Having moved a few miles across […]

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Drugs / Policy / United States / World

A progressive cesspit

Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd February, 2020) Gilles Desaulniers moved to San Francisco 40 years ago, settling in the ‘friendly, quaint and affordable’ city after running […]

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Drugs / Policy / United States / World

And a hippy new year….

Published by The i paper (1st January, 2018) The first time I went to the United States was in 1983 when I spent summer working at a camp […]

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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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