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  • Foreign Correspondent and Columnist, Freelance
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Foreign correspondent, columnist, campaigner, co-founder @africaexpress, citizen of the world and a bit more besides...
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Aid cuts didn’t cause ebola

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By Ian Birrell Verified
| The Spectator Australia Verified
Ebola is a very scary disease, the sort of nightmarish plague seen in a Hollywood disaster movie with gruesome symptoms and terrifying death rates. It starts with a fever and headache, confusingly similar to malaria or typhoid, but all too often ends with bleeding gums, diarrhoea and vomiting before a disoriented patient suffers chronic organ failure. Now it has erupted again in the heart of Africa.
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Autistic people are enduring state-sanctioned torture in the UK. Yet we do nothing

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By Ian Birrell Verified
| EIN News
close Cancel email link share Share bookmark Save Have you watched The Assembly? It is a fabulous chat show on ITV that is funny, insightful and uplifting instead of the format’s usual inanities and celebrity plugs. Those taking the hot seat seem nervous at the outset but often moved by the end. Many questions are brilliantly direct, some bizarrely offbeat.
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How broken children became big business Vulnerable kids are dumped in illegal homes

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By Ian Birrell Verified
| UnHerd Verified
The care sector is broken. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) It is hard to think of a more grotesque example of state failure. A 15-year-old girl is taken into protective care to escape sexual exploitation in south Wales. The local authority sends her off to a children’s home 260 miles away in Yorkshire. Then she is moved to a three-bedroom property 50 miles further north near Durham, where she is the only resident. One day, two “carers” tell their boss they are taking the girl for a river walk.
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