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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

  • Theresa May is in no position to lecture on moral leadership
  • The inhumanity of deeming some lives ‘more valuable’ than others
  • The double standards of sport
  • It’ll be an unforgivable insult to two million dead if world lets China bury the truth
  • America points finger at China lab

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The inhumanity of deeming some lives ‘more valuable’ than others

Published by The Daily Mail (19th January, 2021) Deborah James is a deputy head teacher, a mother of two children... Read Full Article

Britain is callously indifferent to disabled people

Published by The Daily Telegraph (16th January, 2021) When I asked my doughty friend, a working mum on the other... Read Full Article

Notes to a stranger: Thank you for smiling at my daughter

Published by The i paper (30h December, 2020) This is a note to the woman I passed a few weeks... Read Full Article

Fix the care system and end these inhumane detentions

Published by The i paper (30th November, 2020) Susie* is 16 years old. She has autism and special needs. And... Read Full Article

Who should decide when we die?

Published by The i paper (28th September, 2020) Yew Trees was called a hospital but sounds more like hell. It... Read Full Article

‘They are making people worse’

Published by The i paper (13th July, 2020) It is almost two years since I spoke to the distraught father... Read Full Article

A very deadly inequality

Published by The i paper (6th July, 2020) The investment guru Warren Buffet famously said that only when the tide... 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

Shame of Covid-19s forgotten victims

Published by The i paper (11th May, 2020) Britain has one of the highest coronavirus death rates in the world,... Read Full Article

Britain doesn’t care about social care

Published by UnHerd (22nd April, 2020) There are not many things to celebrate in these dark days of pandemic, but... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Theresa May is in no position to lecture on moral leadership
  • The inhumanity of deeming some lives ‘more valuable’ than others
  • The double standards of sport
  • It’ll be an unforgivable insult to two million dead if world lets China bury the truth
  • America points finger at China lab

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 Kenya Labour LibDems Libya May Miliband MoS NHS Nigeria Observer Putin Russia Syria Times Trump Ukip Ukraine UN UnHerd USA

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