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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

  • 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
  • The tragedy of Joe Biden: he betrayed democracy
  • A woman of heroic strength and dignity

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Our image of Africa is hopelessly obsolete

Published in The Observer (26th August, 2012) Think of Ethiopia and what do you see. Perhaps a starving child, flies in... Read Full Article

A roaring British success: from rabble to record-breakers

Published in The Daily Mail (July 28th, 2012) Donna Green grew up in the shadow of the giant Cowley car... Read Full Article

A £13bn boost to the economy? I don’t think so

Published in The Independent (July 6th, 2012) We are almost there. Less than three weeks until the starting pistol is... Read Full Article

Politicians are the last people who should investigate corrupt City spivs

Published in The Daily Mail (July 4th, 2012) So farewell then, Bob Diamond. Few will mourn the departure from British... Read Full Article

Britain’s visa system: a V-sign to visitors

Published in The Guardian (May 15th, 2012) So this is the year Britain throws open its arms and welcomes the... Read Full Article

Osborne has sent a missile into six years of Tory modernisation

Published in The Guardian (March 21st, 2012) There was much to admire when this heavily leaked budget was finally delivered:... Read Full Article

Forget mansions and lower the 40p tax band

Published in The Financial Times (March 6, 2012) Every successful leader of the postwar age in Britain has understood a... Read Full Article

Big Pharma’s demise is nothing to celebrate – our health is in their hands

Published in The Independent (December 3rd, 2011) You may not have heard the screams, but this was the week the... Read Full Article

Proof banks don’t have to be run the Gordon Gekko way

Published in the London Evening Standard (April 19th, 2011) So here we go again. More sound and fury over the... Read Full Article

British music can still star as rock finds a new role

Published in the London Evening Standard (February 15th, 2011) Let’s get the party started. Tonight it is the Brits, that... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • 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
  • The tragedy of Joe Biden: he betrayed democracy
  • A woman of heroic strength and dignity

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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