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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 14h

This explosion of Gen Z protests show the failure of older generations around the world. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/gen-...

Gen Z protests show older generations have failed them

A revolution driven by young people is sweeping the world, from Asia to South America and at both ends of the African continent

inews.co.uk

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 14h

This explosion of Gen Z protests show the failure of older generations around the world. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/gen-...

Gen Z protests show older generations have failed them

A revolution driven by young people is sweeping the world, from Asia to South America and at both ends of the African continent

inews.co.uk

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 1d

Is it last orders for German beer? My @unherd.com piece on the brewing crisis in another national champion
unherd.com/2025/10/is-i...

Is it last orders for German beer?

unherd.com

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 1d

Is it last orders for German beer? My @unherd.com piece on the brewing crisis in another national champion
unherd.com/2025/10/is-i...

Is it last orders for German beer?

unherd.com

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 2d

More Russian war crimes

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2d

Svitlana’s 7-year-old son, Makar, was killed by a Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia last night.

Makar's dad returned from Russian captivity this spring, after being held for three years. He is badly injured, doctors are fighting for his life.

My heard breaks for this family.

📹: weukrainetv

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 2d

She is an amazingly courageous campaigner for democracy who deserves every plaudit going... as well as the country's most popular politican

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 2d

My @unherd.com column from last year on Venezuela's Iron Lady, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize unherd.com/2024/07/the-...

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 2d

Well done to the Nobel Peace Prize panel for resisting pressure and giving this year’s award to the courageous Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado. She is such a deserving winner

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 2d

Well done to the Nobel Peace Prize panel for resisting pressure and giving this year’s award to the courageous Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado. She is such a deserving winner

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 4d

'My daughter died of a ketamine overdose at just 21 but now I want this drug legalised.'

Vicky Unwin of @transformdrugs.bsky.social and and @anyoneschild.bsky.social powerfully sets out the case for reform in the Daily Mail

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic...

My daughter died of a ketamine overdose at 21, but I want it legalised

In 2011, at just 21, Vicky Unwin's daughter drowned in the bath after taking an unintentional overdose of ketamine. Her death devastated their family.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 5d

Excellent slice of controlled fury at Jenrick’s repulsive racism 👇

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 5d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 5d

‘Dior handbags, which retail for between £3-5,000 and which, according to paperwork, cost between £50 and £60 to make’ - interesting Observer‬⁩ expose of slave labour and rip-offs in the luxury fashion industry observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Illegal practices tear the reputation of Italian luxury f...

It is an industry that thrives on quality, yet Italy’s top houses are being investigated for sub-contracting, black market mark-ups and sweat shop labour

observer.co.uk

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5d

JFC the man has not one ounce of shame in him.

He went to private school and Cambridge. He owns three homes and rents a fourth!

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 5d

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 7d

So the Tories continue on their populist death march as a Farage tribute act instead of showing the courage to win back voters appalled by their past antics. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

The Tories deserve no pity. They owe us an apology for Brexit, austerity, and Truss

The Conservatives still need to confront the cause of their own corrosive unpopularity

inews.co.uk

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 7d

Extraordinary tale of Bitcoin, a Georgian autocrat and UAE complicity in kidnapping. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

Opinion | Someone Tipped Me Off About a Crypto Story. What I Found Was Crazy.

www.nytimes.com

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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.bsky.social · 8d

🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 8d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 7d

So the Tories continue on their populist death march as a Farage tribute act instead of showing the courage to win back voters appalled by their past antics. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

The Tories deserve no pity. They owe us an apology for Brexit, austerity, and Truss

The Conservatives still need to confront the cause of their own corrosive unpopularity

inews.co.uk

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 11d

Starmer says we need to look again at ‘this issue of mental health’ and ask if better to put cash into support not benefits, especially for younger people. So what about reforming the care & mental health systems that have been hollowed out and ransacked by private equity sharks?

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 12d

When Shabana Mahmood says migrants can’t get indefinite leave to remain if ‘taking a penny in benefits’, this must mean a couple - maybe working as NHS doctors or nurses - must forget about claiming any care support if they have a child with disabilities. Yes, this is Labour 2025

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 12d

When Shabana Mahmood says migrants can’t get indefinite leave to remain if ‘taking a penny in benefits’, this must mean a couple - maybe working as NHS doctors or nurses - must forget about claiming any care support if they have a child with disabilities. Yes, this is Labour 2025

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 13d

Fortunately the European Parliament keeps a record of Nigel Farage shamefully repeating Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine and absolving Russia of any responsibility for invading a democratic nation while saying Putin 'is on our side' in a more significant struggle

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 13d

Betrayal of Britain: the case of a corrupt and treacherous Reform MP exposes how Russian tentacles reach deep into our democracy. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/russ...

Russian tentacles are reaching deep into British democracy

Russia is deploying all means at its disposal to shred our way of life

inews.co.uk

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 13d

Betrayal of Britain: the case of a corrupt and treacherous Reform MP exposes how Russian tentacles reach deep into our democracy. My @theipaper column on the Kremlin funding of divisive populism inews.co.uk/opinion/russ...

Russian tentacles are reaching deep into British democracy

Russia is deploying all means at its disposal to shred our way of life

inews.co.uk

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 13d

Betrayal of Britain: the case of a corrupt and treacherous Reform MP exposes how Russian tentacles reach deep into our democracy. My @theipaper column on the Kremlin funding of divisive populism inews.co.uk/opinion/russ...

Russian tentacles are reaching deep into British democracy

Russia is deploying all means at its disposal to shred our way of life

inews.co.uk

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 13d

Betrayal of Britain: the case of a corrupt and treacherous Reform MP exposes how Russian tentacles reach deep into our democracy. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/russ...

Russian tentacles are reaching deep into British democracy

Russia is deploying all means at its disposal to shred our way of life

inews.co.uk

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