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Health / Policy

Harriet Harman challenges the section of autistic patients

Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th November, 2018) Harriet Harman is leading a chorus of alarm from MPs over the scandal of youngsters with autism who are […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Profiteers of misery

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th November, 2018) A cluster of ‘fat cat’ private operators is creaming off hundreds of millions of pounds from the NHS after […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Shut away and threatened like animals

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) When Adele Green saw her 13-year-old son Eddie after his first month in a specialist hospital supposed to be […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Scandal of autistic youngsters locked in solitary confinement

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) Hundreds of people with autism and learning disabilities are being locked up in appalling conditions, routinely abused and stuffed […]

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Drugs / Policy

Is it time to legalise cannabis, asks former Met chief?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st October, 2018) Former Scotland Yard chief Bernard Hogan-Howe has called on the Government to set up an urgent review to examine […]

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Africa / Aid / Ghana

Proof that foreign aid does not work

Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th October, 2018) As I drove through villages in northern Ghana, bumping along pitted dirt roads and passing mud-splattered men pushing bicycles, […]

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Europe / Sweden

Liberal Sweden flirts with the far-right

Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th September, 2018) The far-Right leader threatening to shake up the socialist nirvana of Sweden and send shock waves around Europe in today’s […]

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United States / World

America’s child brides forced to marry abusers

Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd September 2018) Donna Pollard had only just turned 16 when she stood in a Kentucky state court house with a serial […]

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Africa / Aid / Kenya / Nigeria

It’s not the Maybolt’s dance moves that are the true horror of her African trip

Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd September, 2018) Theresa May’s robotic dancing made some people laugh. But the Maybot was not the biggest joke about the Prime […]

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United States / World

Could a murdered student be Trump’s salvation (if Melania stays silent)?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th August, 2018) In the spring of 1973 a smart lawyer advising Richard Nixon decided to co-operate with prosecutors as the cover-up […]

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Colombia / Drugs / Policy / World

Hooked on the King of Cocaine

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th August, 2018) As their small plane landed, the passengers were surrounded by two dozen men brandishing machine guns. They were taken […]

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Africa / Zimbabwe

The cunning crocodile who may devour Zimbabwe’s new dawn

Published by The Mail on Sunday (29th July, 2018) Tomorrow marks a landmark in the cruel history of Zimbabwe: the first election since independence in 1980 without Robert […]

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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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