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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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Binge-watching in the time of Covid-19: Fauda

Published by UnHerd (18th March, 2020) Perhaps it has something to do with a job that takes me to hotspots... Read Full Article

Plumbing the depths

Published by The Spectator (14th March, 2020) Going Dark: The Secret Social Life of Extremists by Julia Exner (Bloomsbury) Two... Read Full Article

Fear and facts: why we ignore experts

Published by The i paper (2nd March, 2020) Six months ago, an American musician friend sent me two books with... Read Full Article

Notes from a cruel climate

Published by The Observer (23rd February, 2020) The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts (Doubleday) Sophy Roberts’s first glimpse... Read Full Article

Whitney’s back from the dead. But is her hologram tour a joyful tribute or ghoulish exploitation?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th February, 2020) Whitney Houston will soon be back on stage. Tickets are being... Read Full Article

How would you respond to the rise of Nazism?

Published by UnHerd (3rd January, 2020) My book of this decade might seem a strange choice. It was written in... Read Full Article

Glimpse into a murky world

Published by The Spectator (26th October, 2019) The Killing in the Consulate: Investigating the Life and Death of Jamal Khashoggi... Read Full Article

Have we forgotten Syria?

Published by UnHerd (20th September, 2019) A few weeks ago, I bumped into Omran, a musician friend, who was serving... Read Full Article

Singing songs in harmony

Published by The i paper (15th July, 2019) Fifteen years ago I travelled to the world’s most astonishing music festival,... Read Full Article

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye?

Published by Damn (18th April, 2019) It seems strange to recall that when I was growing up in the suburbs... 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

Tags

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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