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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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China’s economic growth is a force for good

Published by The Daily Telegraph (21st October, 2015) As Britain rolls out the red carpet for China’s president, draping the communist... Read Full Article

Moving the goalposts to keep out refugees from repression

Published by The Independent (31st August, 2015) Eritrea is routinely called ‘Africa’s North Korea’ for its repression, restrictions on daily... Read Full Article

No minister – our billions in foreign aid make it more likely migrants come here

Published by The Daily Mail (11th August, 2015) With every passing day, it becomes harder to have confidence in the... Read Full Article

The inconvenient truth about migrants

Published by The Independent (10th August, 2015) Halima was from Yarmouk, a suburb of Damascus besieged by both Syrian government... Read Full Article

Obama in Africa is right to emphasise trade over aid

Published by CapX (28th July, 2015) It is always easy to snipe at a state leader’s foreign tour, and Barack... Read Full Article

Britain cuts at home, but splashes cash abroad

Published by The Daily Telegraph (23rd July, 2015) The message from George Osborne is clear: Whitehall must slash spending again... 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

Why is David Cameron handing out £12bn of our money to foreign thieves, dictators and charlatans?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th June, 2015) Dear Prime Minister It is a decade since we began striving... Read Full Article

Shamed: foreign aid fat cats who built a fortune with your taxes

Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th May, 2015) Caroline Pinder passionately believes in the power of aid to help... Read Full Article

£400m foreign aid fiasco in paradise

Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th May, 2015) Sean McLaughlin had a simple dream – to build a new... 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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