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Ian Birrell

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Foreign correspondent, columnist, campaigner, co-founder Aftica Express, citizen of the world and a bit more besides…

  1. Fire off a racist, expletive-filled tweet urging people to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers and you get cheered on the stage at Reform’s conference as a ‘political prisoner’

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  2. ‘It’s highly likely that the Covid vaccines have been a significant factor in the cancers of members of the royal family” says Dr Aseem Malhotra at Reform’s party conference.

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  3. Lush is a British retail success story that employs 12,000 people in 27 countries and, unusually, gives employees a voice in running the company. But this sneering buffoon thinks it should close for showing sympathy to people in Gaza enduring war crimes

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  4. Just landed in the weird world of Reform UK’s conference to hear the racist historian David Starkey calling on Farage to impose a state of emergency if he wins the election. ‘I do not want to burn Angela Rayner alive’ he adds bizarrely.

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  5. How billionaires, celebrities and Gulf potentates are creaming off vast sums from the cash-strapped children’s care system - my Daily Mail investigation into obscene profiteering by private equity mol.im/a/15063255

    Nine months ago, Manchester-based investment group Tristone put out a slick video to brag about delivering 'outstanding services' to society, while revenues rose by nearly 50 per cent.

    How the super-rich profit from Britain's chaotic children's homes

    Nine months ago, Manchester-based investment group Tristone put out a slick video to brag about delivering 'outstanding services' to society, while revenues rose by nearly 50 per cent.

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  6. Jenrick critiques Powell on politics/popularity, not principle. This doesn't make much sense. Powell was popular 70% to 20% in 1968 but mobilised a climate of fear for migrants and minorities who faced a surge in racist abuse towards non-white minorities.

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  7. How billionaires, celebrities and Gulf potentates are creaming off vast sums from the cash-strapped children’s care system - my Daily Mail investigation into obscene profiteering by private equity mol.im/a/15063255

    Nine months ago, Manchester-based investment group Tristone put out a slick video to brag about delivering 'outstanding services' to society, while revenues rose by nearly 50 per cent.

    How the super-rich profit from Britain's chaotic children's homes

    Nine months ago, Manchester-based investment group Tristone put out a slick video to brag about delivering 'outstanding services' to society, while revenues rose by nearly 50 per cent.

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