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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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Deal that makes a mockery of fair play

Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th May, 2018) After a decade writing about the aid industry, I thought I... Read Full Article

British aid keeps on funding repellent regimes

Published by The Times (3rd April, 2018) Politicians of all persuasions love aid. It allows them to pose as protectors... Read Full Article

Bono should change his tune

Published by The ipaper (12th March, 2018) Sunday, bloody Sunday. The Irish pop star Bono must have woken yesterday and... Read Full Article

Shame of Bono’s charity bullies

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th March, 2018) Workers at an organisation founded by U2 singer Bono have been... Read Full Article

Another abuse of power

Published by The i paper (26th February, 2018) I am a big fan of the BBC. Yes, it can be... Read Full Article

Scandal underpinned by cosy network of the arrogant and ambitious

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th February, 2018) When Kevin Watkins celebrated his 60th birthday four years ago, he... Read Full Article

Global thinker in a world filled with narrow-minded nationalism

Published by UnHerd (23rd February, 2018) I first came across the work of the development economist Michael Clemens when I... Read Full Article

A grotesque corruption of compassion

Published by The Mail on Sunday (February 18th, 2018) How the mighty fall. For decades, the self-appointed saints of our... Read Full Article

Haiti earthquake survivors told: if you want aid, pay or sleep with us

Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th March, 2018) A British-funded charity supported by Meghan Markle has admitted its workers traded... Read Full Article

Oxfam’s attack on inequality might be more persuasive if its own bosses weren’t fat cats

Published by UnHerd (22nd January, 2018) It must be hard for a major player in the poverty industry when you... 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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