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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

  • Why isn’t China a pariah state?
  • We don’t need another review. The care system is rotting while politicians play tawdry games
  • Jimmy Carter’s selfless work for the poor and sick after he left office serves as a stinging rebuke to the venality of Blair and Cameron
  • The tragedy of Joe Biden: he betrayed democracy
  • A woman of heroic strength and dignity

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Why Mali was attacked

Published by CapX (20th November, 2015) & The Independent (21st November, 2015) So here we go again. First the tragic... Read Full Article

Don’t just pay glib respects. Pay your taxes to protect us

Published by The Sun (20th November, 2015) It did not take long for the world’s technology giants to react when... Read Full Article

To turn on refugees because of Paris is weak and wrong

Published by The Guardian (18th November, 2015) Should we ban white Australians from coming to Britain? After all, one misfit... Read Full Article

Cut down doing the job he loved

Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th November, 2015) It is hard to think of anyone further removed from the... Read Full Article

Look to France for a vision of life under Miliband

Published by The Guardian (27th August, 2014) History never tires of repeating itself. More than three decades ago Socialists won... Read Full Article

How the West misread Mali

Published in The Guardian (January 25th, 2013) For 10 months the collapse was largely ignored by the west. A country seen... Read Full Article

President Bling-Bling has met his Waterloo

Published in The Daily Mail (May 7th, 2012) So the French have got their wish: they have evicted the brash,... Read Full Article

Plodding provincial who stands on brink of the presidency

Published in The Daily Mail (May 4th, 20120) He cut an unlikely figure as he stood in a corridor of... Read Full Article

When rulers are out of touch, voters fall for extremists’ snake-oil solutions

Published in The Daily Mail (April 24th, 2012) However you cut it, Sunday’s presidential election in France was a profoundly... Read Full Article

Sarko is heading for the guillotine

Published in The Daily Mail (April 20th, 2012) The rally bore all the hallmarks of a president on a triumphant... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Why isn’t China a pariah state?
  • We don’t need another review. The care system is rotting while politicians play tawdry games
  • Jimmy Carter’s selfless work for the poor and sick after he left office serves as a stinging rebuke to the venality of Blair and Cameron
  • The tragedy of Joe Biden: he betrayed democracy
  • A woman of heroic strength and dignity

Tags

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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