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Crime / Policy / Politics

The PM is undermining our freedoms

Published by The i paper (22nd March 2021) For five years, Global Britain has been a slogan in search of a meaning. Last week, the Government sought to […]

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Crime / Policy

The justice system is failing women

Published by The i paper (15th March, 2021) Truly, these are strange times. Last week began with a flood of messages on social media celebrating female empowerment on […]

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Health / Policy

Will we ever confront this sacred cow?

Published by The i paper (8th March, 2021) Could there be a more righteous battle? On one side stands the nation’s nurses, the best-loved workforce even before becoming […]

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Covid19 / Health / Policy

Should the state enforce vaccination?

Published by The i paper (1st March, 2021) Britain’s vaccine programme has been a stellar success, all the more welcome after the disasters leading to our dreadful pandemic […]

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Technology

Tech giants need to be held accountable

Published by The i paper (23rd February, 2021) Earlier this month I wrote an article for UnHerd in response to the World Health Organisation trip to Wuhan in search […]

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Arts / Covid19

Don’t ignore the country’s cash cow

Published by The i paper (15th February, 2021) It is easy to forget London used to be a city in perpetual crisis, a symbol of national decline in […]

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Health / Policy / Social care

My prescription for a healthier NHS

Published by The i paper (8th February, 2021) Matt Hancock overseen a string of fatal failures and one big success since the arrival of Covid-19. Now this ambitious […]

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Europe / Russia

The West can play a part defeating dictatorship

Published by The i paper (1st February, 2021) For the second weekend running, protests against the festering regime of Vladimir Putin flared up across Russia. His security forces […]

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Arts / Covid19 / Music

Musicians deserve a helping hand

Published by The i paper (25th January, 2021) Seventeen years ago, I spent a day in Pimlico with Paul Weller. We met by the Tate Gallery at a time of […]

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Politics

The double standards of sport

Published by The i paper (18th January, 2021) Maro Itoje went to Harrow, one of Britain’s most expensive private schools, before becoming a rugby superstar. But now he […]

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United States / World

The Capitol riots reach beyond Trump

Published by The i paper (11th January, 2011) John McCain was one of the most decent Republican leaders this century. He was a man who proved his strength […]

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Health / Policy / Social care

Care does not need private equity

Published by The i paper (4th January, 2021) We can, thankfully, talk about 2020 in the past tense. It was a year of death and despair, of tragedy […]

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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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