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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

  • The FOREVER prisoners still shackled in Guantanamo 14 years after Obama said it would be shut
  • Double standards of ‘caring capitalism’
  • New evidence that Beijing hid truth about Covid origin and possible leak from Wuhan lab
  • The secret messages behind the lab leak cover-up
  • Starmer needs to change his tune

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Westminster’s drug policy is put to shame

Published by The i paper (10th July, 2023) The state of British politics often induces despair. Westminster is hooked on... Read Full Article

Drug prohibition only helps organised crime

Published by The i paper (3rd April, 2023) The murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel shocked the country: a nine-year-old girl, shot... Read Full Article

Westminster is addicted to drug prohibition

Published by The i paper (15th August, 2022) Rishi Sunak likes to joke that he is a coke addict. He... Read Full Article

Starmer and the futile ‘war on drugs’

Published by The i paper (10th January, 2022) Wes Streeting, the shadow Health and Social Care Secretary, offered intriguing insights... Read Full Article

Britain’s criminal approach to drugs

Published by UnHerd (30th July, 2021) Our nation’s politicians have long been guilty of an inflated sense of exceptionalism. But... Read Full Article

An addiction catastrophe

Published by The Spectator (12th June, 2021) Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Picador) Last week... Read Full Article

Fifty years of fatal failure

Published by The i paper (24th May, 2021) Vicky Unwin has been one of my sister’s closest friends since they... Read Full Article

The blinkered war on drugs cannot be won

Published by The i paper (12th April, 2021) The bust began with a tip-off in the Netherlands. This led German... Read Full Article

Has America changed its mind about drugs?

Published by UnHerd (12th November, 2020) If there is one thing that pretty much everyone in the United States can... Read Full Article

Cannabis failures show why we need to legalise drugs

Published by The Times (10th September, 2020) Carly Barton is a former university lecturer who suffered a stroke at the... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • The FOREVER prisoners still shackled in Guantanamo 14 years after Obama said it would be shut
  • Double standards of ‘caring capitalism’
  • New evidence that Beijing hid truth about Covid origin and possible leak from Wuhan lab
  • The secret messages behind the lab leak cover-up
  • Starmer needs to change his tune

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

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