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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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  • Day they laid waste to Freedom Square, heart of a nation’s release from tyranny
  • Brave Britons answering the call to arms
  • Armed with ‘happiness cocktails’, the villagers all set for battle
  • How I escaped Kyiv
  • ‘Is it a holiday?’ the children asked when they weren’t woken up for school. ‘No, dears,’ mum replied. ‘The war has started…’

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Will China’s ‘Zero Covid’ crackdown ruin the Olympics?

Published by The Daily Mail (17th January, 2022) The timing could not be worse. Omicron has seeped into China on the... Read Full Article

So why did the science establishment try so hard to silence those who feared Covid leaked from a Chinese lab?

Published by The Daily Mail (12th January, 2022) Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the world-famous Wellcome Trust, has condemned the... Read Full Article

Call for probe into ‘Covid’ outbreak at wuhan games 2 months before world was alerted

Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th January, 2022) A Canadian military officer who fears he was at the ‘Ground... Read Full Article

How China made Covid worse

Published by UnHerd (9th December, 2021) Two years ago this week, a middle-aged man in Wuhan caught a strange respiratory... Read Full Article

How I learned to accept Covid passes

Published by The i paper (25th October, 2021) Yesterday I checked into a hotel in Berlin. Then I ate a... Read Full Article

The Covid origins debate has been stifled

Published by The i paper (18th October, 2021) Perhaps the silliest comment during the demeaning Brexit debate was Michael Gove... Read Full Article

So what are they hiding?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd October, 2021) The Government has been condemned after refusing to release details of... Read Full Article

Is this proof of lab leak lies?

Published by UnHerd (10th September, 2021) There are many things we still do not know about the origins of this... Read Full Article

Leading US scientist: I was told about the Wuhan outbreak two weeks before Beijing warned the world

Published by The Mail on Sunday (5th September, 2021) One of the world’s top epidemiologists admits he first heard about... Read Full Article

China lashes out at US over ‘fake news’ ahead of key report into COVID origins

Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd August, 2021) The Chinese government has stepped up its aggressive resistance against efforts... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Day they laid waste to Freedom Square, heart of a nation’s release from tyranny
  • Brave Britons answering the call to arms
  • Armed with ‘happiness cocktails’, the villagers all set for battle
  • How I escaped Kyiv
  • ‘Is it a holiday?’ the children asked when they weren’t woken up for school. ‘No, dears,’ mum replied. ‘The war has started…’

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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