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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

  • Anthony Fauci’s pardon shames America
  • We must listen to angry young men
  • Trump’s talk of land grabs are a gift to dictators
  • China’s stooges expose the real Covid conspiracy
  • Schools offer a lesson on Labour’s confusion

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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

Mississippi yearning: driving down America’s Great River Road

Published in The Guardian (December 4th, 2010) As we nudged the Mustang on to the vast metal bridge spanning the... Read Full Article

This award is premature – and potentially very foolish

Published in The Independent (October 10th, 2009) When Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, the American... Read Full Article

Lessons from the flood

Published in The Sunday Telegraph (September 12, 2010) Five years ago, America was struggling to come to terms with the... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Anthony Fauci’s pardon shames America
  • We must listen to angry young men
  • Trump’s talk of land grabs are a gift to dictators
  • China’s stooges expose the real Covid conspiracy
  • Schools offer a lesson on Labour’s confusion

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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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