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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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Moneybags Miliband

Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st November, 2020) David Miliband was handed an annual pay package of more than $1... Read Full Article

Fat cat charities have forgotten their principles

Published by The Times (26th June, 2020) Another day, another scandal involving a big charity. This time it is the... Read Full Article

Good riddance to the self-serving Department for International Narcissists

Published by The Daily Mail (June 17th, 2020) One of Tony Blair’s first actions in government after winning the 1997... Read Full Article

Foreign aid fund is lining the pockets of the corrupt elite

Published by The Times (20th February, 2020) Perhaps the most famous quote on foreign aid came from Peter Bauer, a... Read Full Article

War crime victims let down by the bloated aid system

Published by The Times (9th January, 2020) The issue was clear, the intentions noble, the promises bold. The coming together... Read Full Article

Your cash is still funding despotic regimes in China and North Korea

Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd December, 2019) The Foreign Office has been condemned by senior MPs and human rights... Read Full Article

An aid to better spending

Published by The Times (12th December, 2019) Even Boris Johnson’s critics would agree that on the subject of international aid... Read Full Article

A light shining through darkness

Published by The i paper (14th October, 2019) History is a harsher judge than people appointed by Norway’s parliament, but... Read Full Article

The million-dollar question: is David Miliband a gilt-edged hypocrite?

Published by The Daily Mail (October 1st, 2019) When David Miliband was running to succeed Gordon Brown as leader of... Read Full Article

Million dollar Miliband

Published by The Mail on Sunday (29th September, 2019) Former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband is being paid almost $1 million... 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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