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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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  • We must listen to angry young men
  • Trump’s talk of land grabs are a gift to dictators
  • China’s stooges expose the real Covid conspiracy
  • Schools offer a lesson on Labour’s confusion

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What next for the coalition?

Published in Prospect (May 4th, 2011) So it is all over bar the shouting. And what a lot of shouting... Read Full Article

Is the Coalition marriage doomed to end in divorce?

Published in the London Evening Standard (May 3rd, 2011) Thankfully, it is nearly over. The debate over a small change... Read Full Article

Slaughter of the olive branch martyrs

Published in The Mail on Sunday (May 1st, 2011) The story of the Syrian uprising is being told in short... Read Full Article

NHS rewards bosses after 1,200 ‘excess’ deaths at scandal-hit hospitals

Published in The Mail on Sunday (May 1st, 2011) Julie Bailey is still haunted by the death of her mother,... Read Full Article

Wedding guests whose presence shames the nation

Published in The Times (April 28th, 2011) Tomorrow’s royal wedding is not a state occasion, say Palace officials, just a... Read Full Article

Why Britain must try to stop the slaughter in Syria

Published in the London Evening Standard (April 27th, 2011) Libya made history last month by becoming the first nation to... Read Full Article

Proof banks don’t have to be run the Gordon Gekko way

Published in the London Evening Standard (April 19th, 2011) So here we go again. More sound and fury over the... Read Full Article

Inside Syria: Secret police tell parents of arrested protesters to forget their children and have some more

Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 17th, 2011) Khalid was not a political activist, just an ordinary middle-class man... Read Full Article

Spotify Sunday: Shuffle…

Published on The Spectator website (April 16th, 2011) Like many music fans, I could spend months pondering a playlist and... Read Full Article

The scandal of orphanages in tourist resorts and disaster zones that rent children to fleece gullible Westerners

Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 10th, 2011) As a child welfare expert who has worked amid bullets and... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Anthony Fauci’s pardon shames America
  • We must listen to angry young men
  • Trump’s talk of land grabs are a gift to dictators
  • China’s stooges expose the real Covid conspiracy
  • Schools offer a lesson on Labour’s confusion

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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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