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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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MPs can’t afford to ignore the millions we waste on aid

Published by The Times (29th March, 2017) Can you guess the big problem with Britain’s aid spending? It is not... Read Full Article

Who’s laughing now? The BBC should not promote aid

Published by CapX (24th March, 2017) So here we go again: Red Nose Day has arrived with japes, high jinks... Read Full Article

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

A disturbing new low for foreign aid

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th March, 2017) Britain is pumping huge sums of foreign aid into Palestinian schools named... Read Full Article

The 5-star rip-off

Published by The Mail on Sunday (5th March, 2017) Bureaucrats handing out British aid have spent an astonishing £15 million... Read Full Article

Stunning victory as four fat cats quit over dirty tricks

Published by The Mail on Sunday (5th March, 2017) Four senior executives at Britain’s biggest specialist foreign aid contractor have... 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

Behind the fine words, corruption festers

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th February, 2017) So now it is official: Adam Smith International, Britain’s biggest specialist... 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

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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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