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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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  • Day they laid waste to Freedom Square, heart of a nation’s release from tyranny
  • Brave Britons answering the call to arms
  • Armed with ‘happiness cocktails’, the villagers all set for battle
  • How I escaped Kyiv
  • ‘Is it a holiday?’ the children asked when they weren’t woken up for school. ‘No, dears,’ mum replied. ‘The war has started…’

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A powerful voice for equality, peace and reconciliation

Published by The i paper (27th December, 2021) I never took much notice of Desmond Tutu until one day in... Read Full Article

Truss urged to block diplomat over kidnap of Hotel Rwanda hero

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th December, 2021) Foreign secretary Liz Truss is being urged to block the appointment... Read Full Article

Andrew Mitchell’s friends in Rwanda

Published by UnHerd (6th December, 2021) Earlier this year, Baroness Kennedy was contacted by the two daughters of Paul Rusesabagina... Read Full Article

The making of a monster

Published by The Times (20th March, 2021) Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime... Read Full Article

National newspaper gives a pulpit to a bloodstained dictator

Published by UnHerd (3rd March, 2021) The Rwandan president Paul Kagame is a master at playing Westerners for adulation and... Read Full Article

The dictator who fooled us

Published by UnHerd (23rd February, 2021) Paul Rusesabagina was a humble hotel manager when he became a hero amid the... Read Full Article

Bobi Wine and the battle for Uganda

Published by UnHerd (14th January, 2021) It seems strange to think that when Yoweri Museveni grabbed control of Uganda 35... Read Full Article

Aid charities miss the point with call for free Covid jabs

Published by The Times (10th December, 2020) Amid the joy at seeing the first elderly Britons inoculated against Covid-19, a... Read Full Article

The lockdown conundrum

Published by The i paper (12th October, 2020) As the nights darken, coronavirus cases surge and job losses soar, the... Read Full Article

Africa’s catastrophic Covid response

Published by UnHerd (11th September, 2020) As Covid-19 began to sweep across the planet earlier this year, the warnings about... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Day they laid waste to Freedom Square, heart of a nation’s release from tyranny
  • Brave Britons answering the call to arms
  • Armed with ‘happiness cocktails’, the villagers all set for battle
  • How I escaped Kyiv
  • ‘Is it a holiday?’ the children asked when they weren’t woken up for school. ‘No, dears,’ mum replied. ‘The war has started…’

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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