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Politics

A general election wipeout in waiting

Published by The i paper (6th May, 2024) The mood was very tense as the votes were recounted in Coventry, then totted up in Sandwell. Then came the […]

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Covid19 / Health / Policy

Why the reluctance among some ethnic minorities to have Covid jabs?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th February, 2021) Jama is a driver who, before the pandemic, ferried people but he now delivers parcels. He is a Somali […]

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Politics

Madness! How one small sign summed up a divided nation

Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th October, 2019) Captain Jean-Luc Picard should have known better than to trust our weather. But scarcely had Sir Patrick Stewart pointed to the […]

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Politics

The Tories, sunk by the politics of fear, must lose the Lynton Crosby playbook

Published by The Guardian (9th June, 2017) There is one clear lesson from the strangest election campaign of my lifetime: the Tories need to chuck away the dismal […]

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Arts / Drugs / Music / Policy

Clubs are closing and British culture will suffer

Published by theipaper (22nd August, 2016) Seventeen years is a long time in club culture. Yet Fabric has survived and largely thrived in a former cold storage unit […]

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Politics

Doomsday warning: Tories and Labour are in danger

Published by The ipaper (8th May, 2016) Austrians face a choice between two candidates in the run-off for their presidential election later this month. They can support a […]

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Israel, West Bank & Gaza / Policy / Race / World

Whatever they do, Muslims can’t win in our society

Published by The Guardian (28th April, 2016) It is enough to make you feel proud to be British, citizens of a nation that loves little better than 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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