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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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High salaries, bonuses and suspect cash withdrawals

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th December, 2016) It all sounds so positive on Adam Smith International’s website: an... Read Full Article

Message written in blood shows weakness of Taliban

Published by The Daily Mail (16th December, 2014) At first staff thought it was just children playing a boisterous game,... Read Full Article

Save lives Mr Cameron, but don’t imagine you need to save Africa

Published in The Independent (February 2nd, 2013) This week, the Prime Minister went to Africa.Struggling to achieve anything at home... Read Full Article

The day that shook the world

Published in The Observer (September 11th, 2011) The Eleventh Day by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (Doubleday); The 9/11 Wars... Read Full Article

It’s a fiasco, says our man in Kabul

Published in the Daily Mail (July 1st, 2011) Cables from Kabul: The Inside story of the West’s Afghanistan campaign by... Read Full Article

False hopes and phoney democracy

Published in The Independent (July 15th, 2009) And so the charade begins once again. A state ripped apart by war,... Read Full Article

Recent Articles

  • Virus ‘definitely’ began in China, say US scientists
  • Musicians deserve a helping hand
  • Theresa May is in no position to lecture on moral leadership
  • The inhumanity of deeming some lives ‘more valuable’ than others
  • The double standards of sport

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