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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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Blundering, bloated and biased – the NHS watchdog not fit for purpose

Published by The Daily Mail (20th January, 2015) Britain’s health service is much too important to be treated as a... Read Full Article

A vision that could save the NHS

Published by The Daily Mail (9th January, 2012) At the heart of the decision to let the first private firm... Read Full Article

Yes, the NHS is creaking but Labour’s cynical hypocrisy is sickening

Published by The Daily Mail (7th January, 2015) With headlines screaming that the NHS is in meltdown, a plethora of... Read Full Article

Can we face the truth about the NHS?

Published by The Independent (5th January, 2015) Books about brain surgery are not usually best-sellers. But when the newspapers did... Read Full Article

My hero of 2014 sacrificed herself to save countless others

Published by The Independent (29th December, 2014) News is by nature a grim business, the most terrible and tragic tales... Read Full Article

Bonfire of the ebola victims

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th September, 2014) As I walked into the walled Hindu-style cremation site outside Monrovia... Read Full Article

We must tax sugar before Britain eats itself to death

Published by The Daily Mail (19th September, 2014) Mr Cube played a big role in my childhood. Not only did... Read Full Article

South Africa’s obesity crisis: the shape of things to come?

Published by Mosaic Science (9th September, 2014) When the first McDonald’s restaurant opened almost two decades ago in Johannesburg, a... Read Full Article

Arrogant doctors and a sinister abuse of power

Published by The Daily Mail (2nd September, 2014) Ashya King’s parents are not murderers, terrorists or vicious thieves. They are... Read Full Article

Our medical advances have outstripped our humanity

Published by The Guardian (8th August, 2014) I can still remember each second of that day just before Christmas when... 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

Tags

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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