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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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Vultures of the famine

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th March, 2017) Emmanuel Ayapar is three years old and can no longer walk.... Read Full Article

Western aid has enabled South Sudan’s kleptocrats

Published by CapX (24th February, 2017) Fine words flowed at birth of the world’s newest nation six years ago. Britain... Read Full Article

Print your own body parts

Published by Mosaic Science, The Observer & The Atlantic (19th February, 2017) John Nhial was barely a teenager when he... Read Full Article

Revealed: foreign aid fat cats soak up £17m in fees – on £25m pump project

Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd January, 2017) More than two-thirds of £25.4 million spent on a foreign aid... Read Full Article

A truly monstrous regiment

Published by The Spectator (31st December, 2016) When The Walking Defeats You: One Man’s Journey as Joseph Kony’s Bodyguard by... Read Full Article

Revealed: How Britain pours £568m into war-torn Somalia despite ‘certain’ risk it will be stolen and used to fund terrorism

Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th December, 2016) The Government is pumping more than half a billion pounds of... Read Full Article

Gap year volunteers can do more harm than good

Published by the ipaper (29th August, 2016) It’s that time of year: the results are in, the desired grades have... Read Full Article

How can Britain justify propping up Mugabe?

Published by The Daily Telegraph (12th August, 2016) First the price of mobile data went up drastically overnight. Then it... Read Full Article

Why is Britain shoring up Mugabe’s brutal regime?

Published by The i paper (25th July, 2016) After almost four decades in power, Robert Mugabe’s vice-like grip on Zimbabwe... Read Full Article

Fishy tale of British aid and French military boats

Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st May, 2016) Britain has suspended aid to Mozambique, one of the world’s poorest... 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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