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Ian Birrell

  • Award-winning columnist and foreign reporter. Contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday and weekly columnist in the 'i' paper. Writes regularly for many other papers, platforms and magazines. Frequent broadcaster and speaker at events. Co-founder wth Damon Albarn of the Africa Express music project and executive producer of 4 albums...Read more
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Recent Articles

  • Another death, this time a friend’s son, highlights the need for an urgent review of psychiatric services
  • Our timid tolerance for tyranny
  • Boris Johnson is rescuing his own career when helping Ukraine
  • Is this depravity intrinsic to war, to Russians – or to all humanity once its veneer of civilisation is stripped away?
  • People with disabilities abandoned in Ukraine

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Iceland owes us billions. Why on earth is the EU giving millions of our money in aid?

Published in The Daily Mail (March 8th, 2012) For all its recent problems, Iceland remains a prosperous place. Visiting there... Read Full Article

The aid business has grown fat. It’s time there was proper scrutiny

Published in The Spectator (February 18th, 2012) Such a simple question: should Oxfam spend a couple of hundred pounds a... Read Full Article

Haiti and the shaming of the aid zealots

Published in the Daily Mail (January 27th, 2011) The first thing that strikes you is the smell: a sweet, sickly... Read Full Article

Monster behind genocide and rape squads

Published in the Daily Mail (July 27th, 2011) Women and children – desperately sick and weak after months on the... Read Full Article

The former British colony that shows Africa doesn’t need our millions to flourish

Published in The Mail on Sunday (July 24th, 2011) The Summer Time restaurant was buzzing. On the dusty road outside,... Read Full Article

Ten great myths about foreign aid

Published in the Daily Mail (July 7th, 2011) As he pledged to pour hundreds of millions more into propping up... Read Full Article

The corrosive legacy of Live Aid

Published in the Daily Mail (June 4th, 2011) Like most people of my generation, I can still recall with utmost... Read Full Article

Stop the flow of cash to Rwanda’s despotic regime

Published in The Times (May 23rd, 2011) Somehow, we never seem to learn. This year, we have seen seismic uprisings... Read Full Article

Despite our noble intentions, aid does not solve problems – it just makes them worse

Published in the Daily Mail (May 18th, 2011) The Marriott Hotel in Islamabad symbolises Pakistan’s profound problems with terrorism and... Read Full Article

The scandal of orphanages in tourist resorts and disaster zones that rent children to fleece gullible Westerners

Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 10th, 2011) As a child welfare expert who has worked amid bullets and... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Another death, this time a friend’s son, highlights the need for an urgent review of psychiatric services
  • Our timid tolerance for tyranny
  • Boris Johnson is rescuing his own career when helping Ukraine
  • Is this depravity intrinsic to war, to Russians – or to all humanity once its veneer of civilisation is stripped away?
  • People with disabilities abandoned in Ukraine

Tags

aid autism Blair Boris Brexit Cameron China coalition Conservatives Corbyn coronavirus crime Daily Mail democracy Dfid Disability drugs Ethiopia EU Guardian human rights immigration Independent ipaper Isis Labour LibDems Libya May Miliband MoS NHS Nigeria Observer Putin Russia social care Syria Times Trump Ukip Ukraine UN UnHerd USA

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