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Ian Williams

New York
As seen in: Bottom Line, MSN, MSN Ireland, MSN Singapore, MSN UK, BBC, BBC Afrique, BBC News, BBC Sport, Daily Mail and
Covers:  united nations, business, spirits, environment, geopolitics
Doesn't Cover: sport
I write about politics, business,& books. My eventual ambition is to tweet political haiku, but I am honing my poetic skills while mostly sticking to prose.

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African para-athletes praise Commonwealth Games inclusivity

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By Ian Williams
| Yahoo News Malaysia Verified
The inclusive nature of the Commonwealth Games' integrated schedule is helping to change African attitudes towards disability, according to some of the continent's leading para-athletes. Unlike the Paralympics there is no separate event for para-sports at the Games, meaning medals won by disabled and non-disabled competitors contribute equally to a nation's tally.
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70 years on from the killer smog: what clean air laws teach us about power, pollution and profit

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By Ian Williams
| Inkl
MagicBones/Shutterstock Seventy years ago, London choked. For five days in December 1952, a toxic smog smothered the city. Visibility collapsed. Transport failed. Thousands died. It was not a natural disaster. It was the product of policy failure. Out of that catastrophe came one of the most important environmental laws in UK history: the Clean Air Act 1956. It was a turning point. It showed that science, when taken seriously, can transform public health. But the story does not end in 1956.
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First Afcon, now World Cup - Senegal trapped in 'football hell'

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By Ian Williams
| Yahoo News Malaysia Verified
In the city famous for giving us rock legends Nirvana, Senegal contrived a way to slip from a blissful state back into football hell in Seattle. And VAR is the devil laughing on their shoulder. The parallels between the Teranga Lions' last-gasp World Cup exit and January's Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) final, in which they were also infuriated by a controversial late penalty awarded following the intervention of the video assistant referee, are mind-blowingly similar.
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Interview

Have you ever used a typewriter?

yes

Why did you become a journalist?

Drifted into it. Made more sense than being a union officer!