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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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  • Musicians deserve a helping hand
  • Theresa May is in no position to lecture on moral leadership
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How would you respond to the rise of Nazism?

Published by UnHerd (3rd January, 2020) My book of this decade might seem a strange choice. It was written in... Read Full Article

Anger, resentment and the rise of the far-right after the fall of the wall

Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd November, 2019) Frank Schale was a child of Communism. He can remember clearly... Read Full Article

Did German anti-Semitism ever really disappear?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th June, 2019) Nine months ago, Liam Rückert left his home and mother in... Read Full Article

Crisis? What crisis? It’s just a few boats feuling hysteria about immigration

Published by The ipaper (31st December, 2018) As Angela Merkel enters the twilight of her extraordinary political career, she can... Read Full Article

Why you can’t really on the news media to understand Europe

Published by UnHerd (16th March, 2018) Which country’s politics are most closely observed after our own in Britain? It’s easy:... Read Full Article

The great survivor of European politics

Published by UnHerd (14th September, 2017) For all the feverish polls and fervid political analysis, every election boils down to... Read Full Article

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

Time to face the truth about immigration

Published by The i Paper & The Independent (January 18th, 2016) The mood across Europe is hardening as desperate people... Read Full Article

Forget fear and loathing: 15 reasons to celebrate the world in 2015

Published by The Independent (28th December, 2015) Who will mourn the passing of 2015? It seems such a grim year... Read Full Article

Germany’s refugee inferno

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th September, 2015) In the three-storey house in the neat village of Gerstungen, the... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • The West can play a part defeating dictatorship
  • Virus ‘definitely’ began in China, say US scientists
  • Musicians deserve a helping hand
  • Theresa May is in no position to lecture on moral leadership
  • The inhumanity of deeming some lives ‘more valuable’ than others

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