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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

  • I’ve seen the fragility of our way of life, how precious is peace and the need for constant vigilance against tyranny
  • Town of the Damned
  • World’s most infamous mercenary steps out the shadows
  • Slaughter of the conscripts
  • How to fix the NHS and social care

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World’s top medical journal finally says Covid could have come from lab leak

Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th September, 2022) THE world’s leading medical journal has conceded that the Covid pandemic... Read Full Article

Will China’s ‘Zero Covid’ crackdown ruin the Olympics?

Published by The Daily Mail (17th January, 2022) The timing could not be worse. Omicron has seeped into China on the... Read Full Article

So why did the science establishment try so hard to silence those who feared Covid leaked from a Chinese lab?

Published by The Daily Mail (12th January, 2022) Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the world-famous Wellcome Trust, has condemned the... Read Full Article

Call for probe into ‘Covid’ outbreak at wuhan games 2 months before world was alerted

Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th January, 2022) A Canadian military officer who fears he was at the ‘Ground... Read Full Article

How China made Covid worse

Published by UnHerd (9th December, 2021) Two years ago this week, a middle-aged man in Wuhan caught a strange respiratory... Read Full Article

How I learned to accept Covid passes

Published by The i paper (25th October, 2021) Yesterday I checked into a hotel in Berlin. Then I ate a... Read Full Article

The Covid origins debate has been stifled

Published by The i paper (18th October, 2021) Perhaps the silliest comment during the demeaning Brexit debate was Michael Gove... Read Full Article

So what are they hiding?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd October, 2021) The Government has been condemned after refusing to release details of... Read Full Article

Is this proof of lab leak lies?

Published by UnHerd (10th September, 2021) There are many things we still do not know about the origins of this... Read Full Article

Leading US scientist: I was told about the Wuhan outbreak two weeks before Beijing warned the world

Published by The Mail on Sunday (5th September, 2021) One of the world’s top epidemiologists admits he first heard about... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • I’ve seen the fragility of our way of life, how precious is peace and the need for constant vigilance against tyranny
  • Town of the Damned
  • World’s most infamous mercenary steps out the shadows
  • Slaughter of the conscripts
  • How to fix the NHS and social care

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aid autism Blair Boris Brexit Cameron China coalition Conservatives Corbyn coronavirus crime Daily Mail democracy Dfid Disability drugs Ethiopia EU Guardian human rights immigration Independent ipaper Isis Labour LibDems Libya May Miliband MoS NHS Nigeria Observer Putin Russia social care Syria Times Trump Ukip Ukraine UN UnHerd USA

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