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Syria / World

What’s the point of gesture bombing in Syria without a wider strategy?

Published by CapX (12th April, 2018) There is one fact that everyone can agree: the war in Syria is utterly appalling, an eruption of hell that stains humanity. […]

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United States / World

Trump: emboldened and dangerous

Published by The i paper (26th March, 2018) Donald Trump never wanted to be president. His goal when running for the White House was the same as it […]

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Africa / Mali / United States / World

As our narrative on Africa shrinks, the continent rises

Published by The i paper (15th January, 2018) For a brief moment Donald Trump sounded presidential on Friday as he signed a proclamation to mark the public holiday […]

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Europe / European Union / Politics / Russia / Technology

We need an investigation into Russia’s role in the Brexit vote

Published by The i paper (13th November, 2017) Every now and then, observing the strange state of global events, we must pause to remind ourselves we are witnessing […]

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Health / Policy / United States / World

America’s public health enemy No 1

Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st October, 2017) When Patsy Stinchfield was a young nurse practitioner three decades ago, her home town in the US Midwest was […]

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Economics / United States / World

The gap between Trump’s manufactured promises and life in Middle America

Published by UnHerd (28th September, 2017) After more than a decade working in a plant assembling circuit boards for boilers, Jody Krinn was starting to ponder retirement. Not […]

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Politics

What Rees-Mogg’s popularity reveals about the Tories

Published by The ipaper (11th September, 2017) The idea of Jacob Rees-Mogg as the leader to save Tories from electoral crisis is laughable, certainly in this century. He […]

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North Korea / United States / World

Liberating 25 million enslaved North Korean people should be our priority

Published by The ipaper (4th September, 2017) It felt like an earthquake. Tremors rippled out from the underground test zone buried deep in a North Korean mountain and […]

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Drugs / Policy / United States / World

The other deadly hurricane surging across America

Published by UnHerd (1st September, 2017) Last weekend I was in Houston when the hurricane hit. The winds smashed into buildings, the rain lashed down. It was an […]

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United States / World

Storms in Texas, clouds over Washington

Published by The ipaper (28th August, 2017) The rain is still coming down hard here in Houston. And soon the president will be down also, trying to look […]

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United States / World

Give thanks for this White House chaos

Published by The ipaper (21st August, 2017) It seems incredible but it has only been seven months since Donald Trump became 45th president of the United States. Seven […]

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United States / World

Battles remain but progress on gay rights is now global

Published by UnHerd (17th August, 2017) Let’s call him Joe. That is not his real name but he seemed an Honest Joe. He worked in a local government […]

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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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