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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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Why a trick of the mind can make you blind

Published by The Daily Mail (18th June, 2015) It’s All In Your Head by Suzanne O’Sullivan (Chalto & Windus) Life was good... Read Full Article

Divas who think they can’t sing

Published by The Daily Mail (15th May, 2015) Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing (Virago) Dusty... Read Full Article

Britain is winning the star wars

Published by CapX (7th May, 2015) What more could a chancellor have wanted on the eve of an election? No... Read Full Article

A continent trashed by treasure seekers

Published by The Observer (1st March, 2015) The Looting Machine: Warlords, tycoons, smugglers and the systematic theft of Africa’s wealth... Read Full Article

The heartbeat of South Africa

Published by High Life (8th January, 2015) As we drive into Ivory Park, the sprawling township that clings to rolling... Read Full Article

One refugee’s tale of hope from misery

Published by The Observer (4th January, 2014) A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg (Jonathan Cape) Asad Abdullahi was... Read Full Article

Living in the shadow of the Wall

Published by The Daily Mail (2nd January, 2015) Born in the GDR by Hester Vaizey (OUP Oxford) As the daughter... Read Full Article

Another first-class delivery

Published by The Daily Mail (10th October, 2014) Please, Mr Postman by Alan Johnson (Bantam) One day in June 1969, a... Read Full Article

Time to tackle the misery of mental illness

Published by The Observer (27th July, 2014) Thrive: The Power of Evidence-based Psychological Therapies by Richard Layard and David M... Read Full Article

Goodbye Hollywood, hello Watford

Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th July, 2014) There was a sprinkling of rain as 250 specially invited guests... 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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