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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 Kremlin’s sharpened its attack – and the mood is suddenly more pessimistic
  • Video nasty: Russian PoW’s film shows cruelty and chaos
  • Nationhood forged in blood
  • The sweet smell of liberation as Ukraine pushes back and people emerge from bunkers
  • Even McDonalds couldn’t save Russia

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The two faces of Britain’s foreign policy

Published in The Guardian (September 14th, 2011) The air in Tripoli is heady with optimism. After 42 years of repressive... 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

The other Barack: Bigamist, drunk and wife-beater

Published in the Daily Mail (August 12th, 2011) The Other Barack by Sally H. Jacobs (Public Affairs) Shortly after being... 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

The troubling aftermath of Bin Laden’s killing

Published in The Mail on Sunday (May 8th, 2011) It was a scene familiar from coffee bars around the world.... Read Full Article

Slaughter of the olive branch martyrs

Published in The Mail on Sunday (May 1st, 2011) The story of the Syrian uprising is being told in short... Read Full Article

Wedding guests whose presence shames the nation

Published in The Times (April 28th, 2011) Tomorrow’s royal wedding is not a state occasion, say Palace officials, just a... Read Full Article

Why Britain must try to stop the slaughter in Syria

Published in the London Evening Standard (April 27th, 2011) Libya made history last month by becoming the first nation to... Read Full Article

Inside Syria: Secret police tell parents of arrested protesters to forget their children and have some more

Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 17th, 2011) Khalid was not a political activist, just an ordinary middle-class man... Read Full Article

One year on, Haiti is still in the grip of despair and chaos. And the huge aid effort you funded is to blame

Published in the Daily Mail (January 13th, 2011) The rows of tents seem to stretch on for ever, a ­symbol... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • The Kremlin’s sharpened its attack – and the mood is suddenly more pessimistic
  • Video nasty: Russian PoW’s film shows cruelty and chaos
  • Nationhood forged in blood
  • The sweet smell of liberation as Ukraine pushes back and people emerge from bunkers
  • Even McDonalds couldn’t save Russia

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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