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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

  • I’ve seen the fragility of our way of life, how precious is peace and the need for constant vigilance against tyranny
  • Town of the Damned
  • World’s most infamous mercenary steps out the shadows
  • Slaughter of the conscripts
  • How to fix the NHS and social care

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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

British officers are doing China’s dirty work in Hong Kong

Published by The Times (19th November, 2019) With a sickening sense of inevitability, the peaceful pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong... Read Full Article

Anger over the expat officers ‘doing China’s dirty work’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th August, 2019) As the clashes between police and protesters grow fiercer and the... Read Full Article

Children need help, not demonising

Published by The i paper (9th April, 2018) Sometimes the smallest things drive home the enormity. Amid the mound of... Read Full Article

It’s slow, overdue but underway: we’re on the path to drug reform

Published by UnHerd (23rd November, 2017) Grahame Morris has been called many things in his political career but he could... Read Full Article

Police chief: ‘I won’t arrest low-level dealers, even for selling heroin’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th November, 2017) A police chief has declared that his force will stop prosecuting... Read Full Article

Slowly but surely, the West is coming down from the hallucinatory war on drugs

Published by The Independent (27th July, 2015) The stench of hypocrisy has long hung over the drugs debate. Politicians joke... Read Full Article

I know just the man to put the police’s house in order: Andrew Mitchell

Published in The Guardian (October 23rd, 2013) A few months ago David Davis told me that if the police did... Read Full Article

Why does no-one ever take the blame any more?

Published in The Daily Mail (February 13th, 2013) When Nick Clegg dropped into Hampshire to boost his party’s campaign in... Read Full Article

Philandering policemen, secret courts, and this insidious threat to our faith in justice

Published in The Daily Mail (November 20th, 2012) With his long hair, his sinewy body honed by daring feats of... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • I’ve seen the fragility of our way of life, how precious is peace and the need for constant vigilance against tyranny
  • Town of the Damned
  • World’s most infamous mercenary steps out the shadows
  • Slaughter of the conscripts
  • How to fix the NHS and social care

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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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