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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

  • Anthony Fauci’s pardon shames America
  • We must listen to angry young men
  • Trump’s talk of land grabs are a gift to dictators
  • China’s stooges expose the real Covid conspiracy
  • Schools offer a lesson on Labour’s confusion

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To austerity and beyond by Yanis the menace

Published by The Observer (24th April, 2016) And The Weak Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis (Bodley Head) It... Read Full Article

Pope’s humanity puts others to shame

Published by The iPaper (17th April, 2016) Hasan and Nour Essa are both engineers, who fled their besieged, bombed and... Read Full Article

This is about more than just money

Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th April, 2016) When David Cameron told me he was running for the Tory Party... Read Full Article

How British aid ends up funding terrorists

Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th March, 2015) Ahmad Musa sits beside me, a convicted double murderer sentenced to... Read Full Article

The proud island that floated free

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th March, 2016) The problem was simple but infuriating: ‘I had to travel to... Read Full Article

Boris, Brexit and Cameron’s miscalculation

Published by The Wall Street Journal (3rd March, 2016) As British Prime Minister David Cameron surveys the political landscape, he has much... Read Full Article

100,000 reasons why the EU is broken (whether Britain is In or Out)

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th February, 2016) Victoria Square, which took its name from the British Queen who... Read Full Article

So many arguments for Brexit. They can’t all be right

Published by The i Paper & The Independent (22nd February, 2016) During one of last year’s election debates, Nigel Farage... Read Full Article

Cameron on the brink of disaster

Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st February, 2016) During those days when David Cameron soared high in the polls as Opposition... Read Full Article

Don’t expect David Cameron to play nice as he battles for his place in history

Published by The Daily Telegraph (17th February, 2016) So here we go: the battle of Britain’s place in Europe is... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Anthony Fauci’s pardon shames America
  • We must listen to angry young men
  • Trump’s talk of land grabs are a gift to dictators
  • China’s stooges expose the real Covid conspiracy
  • Schools offer a lesson on Labour’s confusion

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

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