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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

  • China’s stooges expose the real Covid conspiracy
  • Schools offer a lesson on Labour’s confusion
  • 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

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Armed with ‘happiness cocktails’, the villagers all set for battle

Published by The Daily Mail (28th February, 2022) Chortkiv should be finishing off preparations for its 500th anniversary celebrations this... Read Full Article

How I escaped Kyiv

Published by The Daily Mail (26th February, 2022) For the second day running, I awoke yesterday to the wailing sound... Read Full Article

‘Is it a holiday?’ the children asked when they weren’t woken up for school. ‘No, dears,’ mum replied. ‘The war has started…’

Published by The Daily Mail (25th February, 2022) The driver of a blue minibus, crammed full of people, was desperately... Read Full Article

People’s army that is stepping up for the fight

Published by The Daily Mail (24th February, 2022) Liza Lukyanova might seem an unlikely recruit for the army of a... Read Full Article

‘It’s awful to think people who survived WWII in their youth have fallen victim in old age to the insanity of a mad man’

Published by The Daily Mail (23rd February, 2022) VADIM was walking his pug dog when we met yesterday morning. The... Read Full Article

The West must punish this thug as he rips apart another nation

Published by The Daily Mail (22nd February, 2022) When Georgia was on the verge of joining Nato in 2008, Russia’s... Read Full Article

Amid fog of this weird war, a day to honour the dead

Published by The Daily Mail (21st February, 2022) The sun was shining as families walked down the street in Kiev,... Read Full Article

The hole blown through teddy bear wallpaper that could be the pretext for war in Ukraine

Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th February, 2022) As we left the car, there was a loud thump, followed... Read Full Article

Putin’s twisted ploy to trigger Ukraine panic

Published by The Daily Mail (19th February, 2022) The pro-Russian rebel leaders of two breakaway Ukrainian regions claimed yesterday to... Read Full Article

Snarling rat backed into a corner who may yet try a desperate last throw of the dice

Published by The Daily Mail (18th February, 2022) Outside my flat’s window, the scene could not be calmer. Five children... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • China’s stooges expose the real Covid conspiracy
  • Schools offer a lesson on Labour’s confusion
  • 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

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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