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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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  • Day they laid waste to Freedom Square, heart of a nation’s release from tyranny
  • Brave Britons answering the call to arms
  • Armed with ‘happiness cocktails’, the villagers all set for battle
  • How I escaped Kyiv
  • ‘Is it a holiday?’ the children asked when they weren’t woken up for school. ‘No, dears,’ mum replied. ‘The war has started…’

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Day they laid waste to Freedom Square, heart of a nation’s release from tyranny

Published by The Daily Mail (2nd March, 2022) Two hideous explosions bookended the day in Kharkiv. The first saw a giant... 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

The ugly truth about psychiatric care

Published by The i paper (15th November, 2021) It is more than three years since I wrote an angry piece... Read Full Article

End the farce of MPs taking second jobs

Published by The i paper (8th November, 2021) Sir John Major was on fiery form interviewed over the weekend by... Read Full Article

Our troops are doing their best. But Kabul shows how impotent we are without America

Published by The Daily Mail (25th August, 2021) There are few institutions that can still unite our nation in uncritical... Read Full Article

The sickening hypocrisy of Bush, Blair and the war on terror

Published by The i paper (9th August, 2021) Twenty years after lethal attacks turned aircraft into weapons and sparked the... Read Full Article

Why won’t The Lancet admit it was wrong?

Published by UnHerd (6th July, 2021) Someone needs to tell The Lancet the most basic tenet of crisis management: when in a... Read Full Article

Winners, on and off the pitch

Published by The i paper (5th July, 2021) One by one, the institutions that bind our country stumbled. We saw... Read Full Article

Head of Wellcome Trust accused of ‘chilling’ bid to stifle debate on lab leak theory

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th June, 2021) Shortly before the pandemic, Sir Jeremy Farrar, head of the globally... Read Full Article

What a Wuhan lab leak would really mean

Published by UnHerd (26th May, 2021) It has taken 17 months since the new coronavirus supposedly erupted, but the lab... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Day they laid waste to Freedom Square, heart of a nation’s release from tyranny
  • Brave Britons answering the call to arms
  • Armed with ‘happiness cocktails’, the villagers all set for battle
  • How I escaped Kyiv
  • ‘Is it a holiday?’ the children asked when they weren’t woken up for school. ‘No, dears,’ mum replied. ‘The war has started…’

Tags

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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