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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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Let’s make children see the nation’s greatest painting

Published by The Times (9th November, 2017) It took more than 200 days of negotiations, but last month the Netherlands... Read Full Article

Good causes stained by death and dirty money

Published by The i paper (6th November, 2017) Colston’s Girls’ School in Bristol has decided not to ditch its name,... Read Full Article

Flawed and frustrating

Published by The Observer (30th July, 2017) Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier (Allen... Read Full Article

Every horror imaginable

Published by The Spectator (3rd June, 2017) A Gift from Darkness: How I Escaped with My Daughter from Boko Haram... Read Full Article

A truly monstrous regiment

Published by The Spectator (31st December, 2016) When The Walking Defeats You: One Man’s Journey as Joseph Kony’s Bodyguard by... Read Full Article

When Big Bang blew apart the bowler hat brigade

Published by The Daily Mail (17th November, 2016) Crash Bang Wallop: The inside story of London’s Big Bang and a... Read Full Article

Hillbilly memoir with lessons for post-Brexit Britain

Published by the ipaper (3rd October, 2016) JD Vance was 31 years old when he published his biography and admits... Read Full Article

Clubs are closing and British culture will suffer

Published by theipaper (22nd August, 2016) Seventeen years is a long time in club culture. Yet Fabric has survived and... Read Full Article

Free speech – or hate speech?

Published by the ipaper (8th August, 2016) Jérémy Gabriel was born with a rare congenital disorder called Treacher Collins Syndrome,... Read Full Article

Murder in the blue lagoon

Published by The Spectator (4th August, 2016) The Jolly Roger Social Club: A True Story of A Killer in Paradise... 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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