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Feature / Immigration / Policy / Race

Winners, on and off the pitch

Published by The i paper (5th July, 2021) One by one, the institutions that bind our country stumbled. We saw our collective faith in the banks, BBC, church, […]

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Politics

Something rotten at the heart of Westminster

Published by The i paper (28th June, 2021) So farewell then, Matt Hancock, self-righteous protector of the nation’s public health in the pandemic. His career, so carefully nurtured […]

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Health / Policy / Politics

Symbol of the sickening Tory chumocracy

Published by The i paper (21st June, 2021) If you want an example of so much that is wrong with our country, consider this fact: Dido Harding has […]

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China / World

China’s Communists cannot gloss over their history

Published by The i paper (7th June, 2021) President Xi Jinping has declared that he wants to rebrand China as a ‘credible, lovable and respectable’ country that is […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

We have failed people with autism

Published by The i paper (31st May, 2021) Dannielle Attree has spent half of her life being subjected to state-sanctioned abuse. She is only 24 years old but […]

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Drugs / Policy

Fifty years of fatal failure

Published by The i paper (24th May, 2021) Vicky Unwin has been one of my sister’s closest friends since they met many years ago over a glass of […]

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Feature / Politics

If you thought Brexit was fraught…

Published by The i paper (10th May, 2021) One of many curiosities about last week’s elections was the unusual success of incumbents. Historically, such events have been a […]

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Politics

The spendthrift at Number 10 Downing Street

Published by The i paper (3rd May, 2021) Imagine you had a choice of two men to run your family finances, maybe also to fix your insurance policies […]

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Politics

Former allies expose the real PM

Published by The I paper (26th April, 2021) The exit of Johnny Mercer from the Government last week provided a perfect vignette for all that is wrong with Westminster. […]

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Policy / Politics / Whitehall

How politics is corrupted by cash

Published by The i paper (19th April, 2021) Political careers all end in failure, according to a famous dictum, yet not all of those involved end up soiled and […]

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Drugs / Policy

The blinkered war on drugs cannot be won

Published by The i paper (12th April, 2021) The bust began with a tip-off in the Netherlands. This led German police to a ship loaded in Paraguay, which […]

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Europe / Germany / Politics

A Green light from Germany

Published by The i paper (5th April, 2021) Angela Merkel has dominated her party, her country and our continent for most of this century, but her long reign […]

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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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