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Ian Birrell

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Disability / Economics

Britain is embracing diversity. So why are people with disabilities still excluded?

Published by The Guardian (30th October, 2015) Rejoice, rejoice. Britain’s biggest companies hit a target of ensuring half the population have one quarter to seats in their boardrooms. Sarcasm […]

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Economics / Policy / Politics / Welfare

Why do we subsidise firms that keep workers in poverty?

Published in The Independent (April 16th, 2013) Commodity trading seems to attract those characters who feel property dealing too ensnared by ethics, and the bonuses in banking just […]

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Politics

Margaret Thatcher taught the next generation to set the agenda

Published in The Guardian (April 10th, 2013) The US academic Cass Sunstein was in Britain at the end of last month. In his usual slightly dishevelled style, he went […]

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Policy / Politics / Welfare

The mutinous anger of Labour voters over welfare

Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 7th, 2013) Let me introduce you to two women I met on Friday. The first is Kathy Barratt, 33, a jobless […]

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Disability / Policy / Politics / Welfare

All we can agree on is that welfare’s in a state

Published in The Independent (April 2nd, 2013) What a strange world we live in. A clutch of Church leaders spent their holiest weekend of the year queuing up to […]

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Disability

The demonisation of the disabled is a chilling sign of the times

Published in The Observer (December 4th, 2011) Peter Greener endured a barrage of hate from his neighbour. Sometimes, it was eggs thrown at his house, stones thrown at his […]

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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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