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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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The tragedy of Syria: how protest spiralled into savagery

Published by The Spectator (26th April, 2018) Two Sisters: Into the Syrian Jihad by Asne Seierstad (Virago); No Turning Back: Life, Loss... Read Full Article

Air strikes only expose the West’s weakness

Published by The i paper (16th April, 2018) One year ago the newly-elected president of the United States was watching... Read Full Article

White Helmets hit back at Russian slurs

Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th April, 2018) Leaders of the Syrian rescue squad accused by Russia of faking footage... Read Full Article

What’s the point of gesture bombing in Syria without a wider strategy?

Published by CapX (12th April, 2018) There is one fact that everyone can agree: the war in Syria is utterly... Read Full Article

The Assad files

Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd December, 2017) The room looks harmless enough, with dull grey shelves and stacks... Read Full Article

Escape from the Isis hell

Published by The Times (18th November, 2017) ‘The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic... Read Full Article

A president guided by television news and emotional whims

Published by The ipaper (10th April, 2017) Even in the whirlwind world of Donald Trump, last week’s events were mind-blowing.... Read Full Article

Assad’s 21st century holocaust

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th February, 2017) Every day, the bodies were delivered to the hospital: battered beyond... Read Full Article

The face of raw courage

Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th January, 2017) She stood defiant in the dock. Blood poured from her mouth... Read Full Article

Pope’s humanity puts others to shame

Published by The iPaper (17th April, 2016) Hasan and Nour Essa are both engineers, who fled their besieged, bombed and... 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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