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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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Cash for terror: how the Palestinian Authority duped British backers

Published by The Jewish Chronicle (31st March, 2016) Ahmad Musa looks like a character in a gangster movie with his... Read Full Article

How British aid ends up funding terrorists

Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th March, 2015) Ahmad Musa sits beside me, a convicted double murderer sentenced to... Read Full Article

Dispelling the myth of humane refugee camps

Published by The i Paper & The Independent (7th March 2016) The young mother told me her horror story as... Read Full Article

How ‘Big Brother’ is destroying free speech in Rwanda

Published by The Observer (10th January) Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram (Bloomsbury) The text arrived... Read Full Article

Spare us the toe-curling stunts of celebrities on foreign aid ego trips

Published by The Daily Mail (30th December, 2015) Perhaps actor Michael Sheen has spent too much time playing Tony Blair.... Read Full Article

The £100m ghost camp for refugees

Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th December, 2015) The huge Azraq refugee camp appears over the horizon like an alien version... Read Full Article

Why is Britain spending millions on flood aid abroad?

Published by The Daily Mail (9th December, 2015) The human drama being played out in Cumbria this week could hardly... Read Full Article

A daft giveaway that feeds corruption

Published by The Mail on Sunday (29th November, 2015) Every day, the British aid splurge becomes more absurd. Despite austerity... Read Full Article

Drug warriors being defeated, but Britain fights on

Published by The Independent (9th November, 2015) There can be no doubt that the daft war on drugs is devastating... Read Full Article

Foreign aid fat cats face greater scrutiny

Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th November, 2015) Ministers have ordered a crackdown on private firms making massive profits... 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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