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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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How we pour millions into foreign flood zones

Published in The Daily Mail (12th February, 2014) While thousands of frightened and furious Britons fight to defend their homes... Read Full Article

World hunger has fallen. Now what do we do about the planet’s expanding waistline?

Published in The Independent (January 11th, 2014) In the year of my birth China was engulfed in the worst famine... Read Full Article

Bill Gates preaches the aid gospel, but is he just a hypocrite?

Published in The Guardian (January 6th, 2014) He made his name as a sharp-elbowed businessman who rode the technology revolution... Read Full Article

Time for BBC to ditch the red noses

Published in the Daily Mail (December 9th, 2013) From the moment Comic Relief was launched in a Sudanese refugee camp... Read Full Article

Too often incompetent, self-serving aid agencies make matters worse

Published in the Daily Mail (November 16th, 2013) The stories are heartbreaking. Families have been ripped apart, houses flattened and... 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

Hideous hypocrisy of the charity fat cats

Published in The Daily Mail (August 7th, 2013) Our overseas aid charities work hard to persuade people to hand over... 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

This is not about ending world hunger. It is a political stunt

Published in The Independent (June 19th, 2013) The broadcasters fell for it, of course. Those colourful images of a “flotilla”... Read Full Article

Foreign aid: the final insult

Published in The Mail on Sunday (May 26th, 2013) It is hard to think of many more blessed spots on... 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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