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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

  • Drug prohibition only helps organised crime
  • Sturgeon, Johnson and the curse of nationalism
  • 24 rape and 18 sex attack claims at hospital… but not a single prosecution
  • Lineker has exposed the depth of culture wars
  • The real Covid conspiracy

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No surrender in the city Putin’s been failing to seize for a decade

Published by The Daily Mail (10th March, 2023) Bouncing along potholed roads at terrifying speeds to avoid any hail of... Read Full Article

‘US missiles with a 100-mile range’ are used in first strikes to retake Mariupol

Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th February, 2023) Ukraine has launched a series of surprise attacks on Russian troops... Read Full Article

What became of the Ukrainian girl whose tearful farewell to her father moved Rishi Sunak to despair?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th February, 2023) It was a moment of heartbreak, an immediately iconic image that... Read Full Article

‘Glory to the heroes!’ rang out as a trumpet sounded beneath the golden dome

Published by The Daily Mail (25th February, 2023) Yesterday morning, as I left my flat in the centre of the... Read Full Article

‘Before the war, we saw Russians alive. Now we only see them dead’

Published by The Daily Mail (24th February, 2023) THE Ukrainian soldiers were hiding among the trees and buried in hobbit-like... Read Full Article

Once Ukrainians trembled at Putin’s threats. Now they joke about playing bingo as they tick off his stock phrases

Published by The Daily Mail (22nd February, 2023) Sinister black posters appeared at bus stops and parks across the country... Read Full Article

‘We will fight until the end’

Published by The i paper (20th February, 2023) When Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it shocked many... Read Full Article

‘I hate all Russians’ Olena tells me. ‘My hatred goes from their children to their grandmothers.’

Published by The Daily Mail (18th February, 2023) On the left bank of Kyiv, ten miles from the city centre,... Read Full Article

‘This isn’t Russian roulette any more… it’s like the suicide of lemmings’

Published by The Daily Mail (14th February, 2023) Russia has suffered some of the heaviest military losses in a single... Read Full Article

Britain shows it can be a force for good by backing Ukraine

Published by The i paper (9th February, 2023) I am sitting on a train heading back into Ukraine. My compartment... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Drug prohibition only helps organised crime
  • Sturgeon, Johnson and the curse of nationalism
  • 24 rape and 18 sex attack claims at hospital… but not a single prosecution
  • Lineker has exposed the depth of culture wars
  • The real Covid conspiracy

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

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