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Disability / Health / Policy

How can Matt Hancock sleep?

Published by The i paper (26th August, 2019) When Christie Harnett was sectioned under mental health laws earlier this year, the doctors insisted it was for her safety. […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Government faces prosecution over human rights of autistic youngsters

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th July, 2019) The equalities watchdog is poised to prosecute the Government and health regulator for permitting the human rights abuse of […]

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Health / Policy / Social care

Social care is a scandal that stains our nation

Published by The Times (5th July, 2019) When politicians are in a pickle on an issue, they kick it into the long grass. So we have seen at […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Deadly inequality

Published by UnHerd (18th June, 2019) We should welcome the fact that the issue of inequality has surged up the political agenda, given the lingering injustices around class, […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

A lame and toothless watchdog

Published by The i paper (17th June 2019) Derek Fleming doted on his ‘funny, caring and loving’ daughter Margaret. But when the lawyer found he had terminal cancer, […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Worried about US healthcare giants? They’re already here

Published by The Times (4th June, 2019) The response could not have been clearer when Woody Johnson, US ambassador to Britain, suggested that American firms would want access […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Hospital holds autistic man for 19 years – then gives him 20 days to go

Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd June, 2019) A man with autism held in a privately operated secure hospital for almost two decades has been given 20 […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Abuse hospital concerns raised four years ago

Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th May, 2019) An inspector with the official health watchdog raised serious concerns four years ago over the abuse, mistreatment and poor […]

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Disability / Health / Policy / Politics

All waffle and no action won’t make you PM, Mr Hancock

Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th May, 2019) After ten months as Health Secretary, Matt Hancock thinks he can offer a prescription to save his country and […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

The scandal of needless incarceration

Published by The i paper (20th May, 2019) In 1964 a Canadian philosophy teacher called Jean Vanier bought a dilapidated house in a French village and invited two young […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Autistic man locked in solitary confinement for ten years

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th May, 2019) An investigation by the Care Quality Commission discovered that a man with autism or learning disabilities has been locked […]

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Britain’s cruel care system shames us all

Published by The Times (19th April, 2019) The details are shocking. A troubled girl just 14 years old, sent for the first time into a place of supposed […]

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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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