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China / Politics / Technology / World

The debasing of democracy

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th March, 2018) Back in those far off days before the internet consumed our world, a teenager from New York launched a […]

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Europe / Russia

Putin is not strong – it’s we who’ve grown weak

Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th March, 2018) In December 1989, a young KGB officer was stationed in Dresden watching the collapse of communism when a crowd […]

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Europe / Russia

Survivor of two poison attacks: hit Abramovich to hurt Putin

Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th March, 2018) A Russian dissident who has survived two attempts to poison him in the past three years has called on […]

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Africa / Aid / South Africa

Shame of Bono’s charity bullies

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th March, 2018) Workers at an organisation founded by U2 singer Bono have been subjected to a ‘toxic’ culture of bullying and […]

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Aid

Scandal underpinned by cosy network of the arrogant and ambitious

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th February, 2018) When Kevin Watkins celebrated his 60th birthday four years ago, he was joined by the aid industry elite. Guests […]

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Aid / Haiti / World

A grotesque corruption of compassion

Published by The Mail on Sunday (February 18th, 2018) How the mighty fall. For decades, the self-appointed saints of our secular age bestrode the world, preaching happily to […]

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Aid / Haiti / World

Haiti earthquake survivors told: if you want aid, pay or sleep with us

Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th March, 2018) A British-funded charity supported by Meghan Markle has admitted its workers traded food and cash for sex with survivors of […]

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Africa / Environment / Policy / South Africa

Water wars as day zero looms

Published by Mail on Sunday (18th February, 2018) The vista could hardly be more barren or forbidding – a parched sandy landscape, baking beneath the afternoon sun, broken […]

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Denmark / Disability / Europe / Health / Policy

A world without Down’s Syndrome children?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th February, 2018) Watching Erica Gaarn-Larsen playing with her six-year-old son Philip in their third-floor flat in central Copenhagen, it is hard […]

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Africa / Nepal / Nigeria / World

Chimps for chumps: inside the cruel world of ape smuggling

Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th January, 2018) The crate flown in from Istanbul was filled with exotic creatures for collectors: tantalus and patas monkeys, golden and […]

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United States / World

Blood-soaked Baltimore becomes murder central

Published by The Mail on Sunday (31st December, 2017) Erricka Bridgeford first saw someone shot dead when she was 12 years old. Her brother has been killed, along […]

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Europe / Turkey / World

Inside the real Santa’s grotto

Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th December, 2017) The ancient Byzantine church sits behind a scruffy shopping square in the Turkish coastal town of Demre, which feels […]

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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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