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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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The scandal of needless incarceration

Published by The i paper (20th May, 2019) In 1964 a Canadian philosophy teacher called Jean Vanier bought a dilapidated house... Read Full Article

UK charity given £132m in foreign aid ‘provided prostitutes for guests’ at functions

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th May, 2019) A major British charity handed huge sums in foreign aid by the... Read Full Article

Autistic man locked in solitary confinement for ten years

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th May, 2019) An investigation by the Care Quality Commission discovered that a man... Read Full Article

Orban’s brand of populism blinds him to reality

Published by The Times (14th May, 2019) Viktor Orban, Hungary’s pugnacious prime minister, created the template for the populism sweeping... Read Full Article

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Published by The i paper (13th May, 2019) He’s back. Like the grinning villain in a grotesque horror movie, Nigel... Read Full Article

Why the Iron Lady is an icon for our times

Published by UnHerd (3rd May, 2019) Forty years ago today, the British people went to the polls and elected their... Read Full Article

Wasteful and misguided: what the new aid minister really thinks about the £14bn we send abroad each year

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th May, 2019) The new International Development Secretary has admitted that ‘not a great... Read Full Article

How football raised its game

Published by UnHerd (10th May, 2019) Football. Bloody hell! First Liverpool’s brilliant fightback against Barcelona taking them to a second... Read Full Article

The rape victim force to suffer again by the police

Published by The ipaper (6th May, 2019) Do you think victims of rape should hand their phones over to police?... Read Full Article

Blood on their hands: the worst disaster in NHS history

Published by The Daily Mail (1st May, 2019) Steve Dymond and I never met. But over the years we developed... Read Full Article

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  • British officers are doing China’s dirty work in Hong Kong
  • Driven along the road to nowhere
  • Frank Dobson’s death is a reminder of Labour’s decay
  • Six Spanish steps towards political paralysis
  • Voters do not know who to believe

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