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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

  • China’s stooges expose the real Covid conspiracy
  • Schools offer a lesson on Labour’s confusion
  • 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

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Mugabe’s secret plan to get sanctions lifted

Published in the Mail on Sunday (September 29th, 2013) Robert Mugabe wants the Queen to help get sanctions against his... Read Full Article

Myths, murder and militancy

Published in The Independent (September 24th, 2013) For two years, Kenyans have been  bracing themselves for the barbarism we have... 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

Feeble leader who lit the fuse for massacre

Published in The Daily Mail (August 15th, 2013) What’s happened since the Arab Spring? Those heady days of early 2011... Read Full Article

Britain’s pathetic response to the rise of a global power

Published in The Guardian (August 9th, 2013) Despite their military name, it is hard to see how an eight-strong delegation... Read Full Article

Support journalists, not countries that jail them

Published in The Guardian (August 5th, 2013) ‘I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that... Read Full Article

The MDC walked like zombies into Mugabe’s trap

Published in The Independent on Sunday (August 4th, 2013) The streets of Harare were largely empty yesterday as a nervous... Read Full Article

Fear and optimism as Zimbabwe faces another rigged election

Published in The Independent (July 30th, 2013) As I sat in Zimbabwe’s national art gallery talking to Jessie Majome, one... Read Full Article

Victims of the war on drugs

Published in The Guardian (July 27th, 2013) In Swindon a young man lies in hospital critically ill after taking a... Read Full Article

A step into the unknown

Published in the New Statesman (July 26th, 2013) As I left one veteran activist’s home in Harare after an evening discussing the... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • China’s stooges expose the real Covid conspiracy
  • Schools offer a lesson on Labour’s confusion
  • 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

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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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