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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

  • Another death, this time a friend’s son, highlights the need for an urgent review of psychiatric services
  • Our timid tolerance for tyranny
  • Boris Johnson is rescuing his own career when helping Ukraine
  • Is this depravity intrinsic to war, to Russians – or to all humanity once its veneer of civilisation is stripped away?
  • People with disabilities abandoned in Ukraine

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Patients suffer. Standards fall. So why is competition still such a dirty word in the NHS?

Published in the Daily Mail (May 26th, 2011) Living in a high-tech age of instant communication, it is easy to... Read Full Article

Patients are being betrayed. Don’t retreat from reform

Published in The Times (May 11th, 2011) For those of us forced to deal with the daily realities of healthcare... 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

The NHS is ripe for revolution

Published in The Observer (February 6th, 2011) It was just a small thing, but telling none the less. My son... Read Full Article

2,000 dead and still no justice for the victims of Britain’s blood transfusion scandal

Published in the Daily Mail (October 18th, 2010) A few months after his birth, Colin developed a bruise on his... Read Full Article

It is patients who will end up losing out

Published in The Independent (November 13th, 2009) Nurses are the lifeblood of the health service. Without good people on the... Read Full Article

The health service needs whistleblowers

Published in The Independent (September 9th, 2009) Soon after Alan Milburn became Health minister in 1997, he wrote to employers... Read Full Article

The NHS is flawed. Here’s the evidence…

Published in The Independent (August 28th, 2009) It was the most painful of the emails that I’ve received over the... Read Full Article

Why I don’t believe that the NHS is sacrosanct

Published in The Independent (August 21st, 2009) It was a simple thing. Another blood test, some more investigations into whatever... Read Full Article

The hell I share with David Cameron

Published in The Spectator (October 22nd, 2005) My daughter suffered two seizures the other night. One was shortly after midnight,... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Another death, this time a friend’s son, highlights the need for an urgent review of psychiatric services
  • Our timid tolerance for tyranny
  • Boris Johnson is rescuing his own career when helping Ukraine
  • Is this depravity intrinsic to war, to Russians – or to all humanity once its veneer of civilisation is stripped away?
  • People with disabilities abandoned in Ukraine

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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