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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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Conscripts given call-up papers on the beaches of Ukraine as losses mount

Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th July, 2022) Like many of his male friends, Serhiy no longer leaves his... Read Full Article

Fear for ex-British soldier captured by Russian forces after steel plant surrender

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th June, 2022) A former British soldier has disappeared after being captured by pro-Russian... Read Full Article

The West needs to show strength – like Ukraine

Published by The i paper (20th June, 2022) Four weeks before Vladimir Putin sent his tanks and troops over the... Read Full Article

Ukraine’s newest heroes: the brave Russian defectors joining the fight against Putin

Published by The Daily Mail (16th June, 2022) Like all his Ukrainian army comrades, Volodymyr Grotskov is fuelled by deeply-held... Read Full Article

Lethal aim of the husband and wife snipers

Published by The Daily Mail (8th June, 2022) Oksana Krasnova smiles when I ask if she enjoys her job as... Read Full Article

Putin the Great? Hardly…

Published by The i paper (6th June, 2022) When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, many officials took down... Read Full Article

Enemy at the gates

Published by The Daily Mail (2nd June, 2022) First came the huge explosion in a school yard that damaged 2,400... Read Full Article

Heroes of the resistance who are sabotaging Putin’s war machine

Published by The Daily Mail (31st May, 2022) The bomb, almost 2lb of high explosive, was hidden in a fuse... Read Full Article

A struggle between good and evil

Published by The i paper (30th May, 2022) Yesterday I was interviewing more Ukrainians fleeing Vladimir Putin’s invasion, hearing sad... Read Full Article

The Kremlin’s sharpened its attack – and the mood is suddenly more pessimistic

Published by The Daily Mail (28th May, 2022) Suddenly the tone has become more pessimistic. Ukraine’s leaders plead desperately for... 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

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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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