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Arts / Books / Health / Policy

Why a trick of the mind can make you blind

Published by The Daily Mail (18th June, 2015) It’s All In Your Head by Suzanne O’Sullivan (Chalto & Windus) Life was good for Camilla. She was a successful family lawyer, […]

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Arts / Books

Divas who think they can’t sing

Published by The Daily Mail (15th May, 2015) Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing (Virago) Dusty Springfield became a star with that smokey, sensual […]

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Politics

Is she just too green for the job?

Published by The Daily Mail (25th February, 2015) As the General Election looms, Natalie Bennett has become a regular on TV news shows, pontificating about why Britain needs […]

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Disability / Health / Policy / Politics

I look at my daughter and welcome this decision

Published by The Daily Mail (4th February, 2015) Given the immense medical and moral significance of the issue, it was curious that MPs were given only 90 minutes […]

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Health / Policy

Blundering, bloated and biased – the NHS watchdog not fit for purpose

Published by The Daily Mail (20th January, 2015) Britain’s health service is much too important to be treated as a political football. Indeed, last year I wrote an article […]

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Health / Policy

A vision that could save the NHS

Published by The Daily Mail (9th January, 2012) At the heart of the decision to let the first private firm manage an NHS hospital was the sensible idea […]

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Health / Policy / Politics

Yes, the NHS is creaking but Labour’s cynical hypocrisy is sickening

Published by The Daily Mail (7th January, 2015) With headlines screaming that the NHS is in meltdown, a plethora of English hospitals have suddenly declared ‘major incidents’, unable […]

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Arts / Books / Europe / Germany

Living in the shadow of the Wall

Published by The Daily Mail (2nd January, 2015) Born in the GDR by Hester Vaizey (OUP Oxford) As the daughter of a Protestant vicar brought up in East […]

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Afghanistan / Pakistan / World

Message written in blood shows weakness of Taliban

Published by The Daily Mail (16th December, 2014) At first staff thought it was just children playing a boisterous game, for as older pupils sat exams on the […]

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Aid

A nauseating award for Blair and a bloated aid industry sucking up to its political paymasters

Published by The Daily Mail (27th November, 2014) A spectacular charity gala studded with celebrities, famous singers and Hollywood stars, it was just the sort of glittering event […]

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Africa / Aid / Ethiopia

Sorry Bob – Band Aid has done more harm than good

Published by The Daily Mail (12th November, 2014) Once again, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure have lined up the latest crop of chart-toppers to create another incarnation — […]

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Arts / Books

Another first-class delivery

Published by The Daily Mail (10th October, 2014) Please, Mr Postman by Alan Johnson (Bantam) One day in June 1969, a young couple from London took the train to […]

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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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