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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

  • Why isn’t China a pariah state?
  • We don’t need another review. The care system is rotting while politicians play tawdry games
  • Jimmy Carter’s selfless work for the poor and sick after he left office serves as a stinging rebuke to the venality of Blair and Cameron
  • The tragedy of Joe Biden: he betrayed democracy
  • A woman of heroic strength and dignity

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Grotesque deeds that stained our democracy

Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st July, 2018) A few days after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, I entered... Read Full Article

A well-trodden journey into the heart of darkness

Published by The Times (30th December, 2017) Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon (Head of Zeus) I... Read Full Article

Voyage of the damned

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th July, 2015) Shortly after breakfast I spotted a blob on the horizon across... Read Full Article

Was it wrong to support the overthrow of Gaddafi?

Published by The Independent (9th March, 2015) There are few historic sites more wondrous than the ruins of Leptis Magna,... Read Full Article

Inside the migrant jails of Fortress Europe

Published by al-Jazeera (16th December, 2014) Travelling around Libya in those days when pictures of a preening Muammar Gaddafi loomed... Read Full Article

I’ll reveal how MI6 gave me to Gaddafi’s thugs

Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th December, 2014) A Libyan dissident kidnapped by US forces with the help of... Read Full Article

A coup, contortions and a confused foreign policy

Published in The Independent on Sunday (August 18th, 2013) As rivers of blood flowed in Egypt this week, the frightening... Read Full Article

A warning shot to the world’s despots

Published in The Independent (April 27th, 2012) The evidence was gruesome. One witness told how he watched his sister being... Read Full Article

This grave desecration does not mean Libya is out of control

Originally posted in The Guardian (March 5th, 2012) The morning had been spent dodging Muammar Gaddafi’s security stooges and talking... Read Full Article

Resist pessimism – keep faith with the Arab Spring

Published in the London Evening Standard (January 3rd, 2012) Just under a year ago, I travelled around Libya posing as... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Why isn’t China a pariah state?
  • We don’t need another review. The care system is rotting while politicians play tawdry games
  • Jimmy Carter’s selfless work for the poor and sick after he left office serves as a stinging rebuke to the venality of Blair and Cameron
  • The tragedy of Joe Biden: he betrayed democracy
  • A woman of heroic strength and dignity

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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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