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Housing / Policy

Slaying dragons: the stifling British green belt

Published by UnHerd (24th April, 2018) Oxford is a beautiful place, famous for its university and fine medieval buildings. But it also stands as symbol of Britain’s housing […]

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Economics / Europe / France

All hail the display of capitalism on Paris streets

Published by UnHerd (12th April, 2018) Paris may be one of the world’s most magical cities, but its taxi drivers have done little to enhance the romantic appeal. […]

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Europe / European Union / Germany / Technology

Why you can’t really on the news media to understand Europe

Published by UnHerd (16th March, 2018) Which country’s politics are most closely observed after our own in Britain? It’s easy: just look at the army of press corps […]

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Aid / Economics

Global thinker in a world filled with narrow-minded nationalism

Published by UnHerd (23rd February, 2018) I first came across the work of the development economist Michael Clemens when I began to investigate the aid industry almost a […]

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Aid / Economics

Oxfam’s attack on inequality might be more persuasive if its own bosses weren’t fat cats

Published by UnHerd (22nd January, 2018) It must be hard for a major player in the poverty industry when you see capitalism, consumerism, science and technology rapidly eroding […]

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Economics

A conundrum so damaging to capitalism

Published by UnHerd (5th January, 2018) The end of the first week of the year is always a slightly strange one. Reality bites after the over-long festive break. […]

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Africa / Aid / General / Ghana

Africa’s leaders look to move beyond control and charity of aid

Published by UnHerd (7th December, 2017) Few people are in better position to observe the pace of political change across Africa than the Sudanese-born billionaire Mo Ibrahim. Flying […]

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Drugs / Police / Policy

It’s slow, overdue but underway: we’re on the path to drug reform

Published by UnHerd (23rd November, 2017) Grahame Morris has been called many things in his political career but he could never be accused of carpetbagging. He was born […]

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Health

Animals. Are they so different to us?

Published by UnHerd (9th November, 2017) It is known that sheep can recognise as many as fifty human faces. Now some Cambridge University researchers have trained eight Welsh […]

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Europe / Spain

Catalonian separatists and Brexiteers share self-defeating stupidity

Published by UnHerd (11th October, 2017) Spain celebrates its national day tomorrow. This is rather unfortunate timing for the annual fiesta of flag-waving and military parading given that […]

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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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Europe / Germany

The great survivor of European politics

Published by UnHerd (14th September, 2017) For all the feverish polls and fervid political analysis, every election boils down to one core issue: change or continuity. When people […]

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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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