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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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Science journals have been corrupted by China

Published by UnHerd (13th August, 2021) Nine months ago, the scientific establishment’s determined efforts to stifle debate on the origins... Read Full Article

China should not veto a pandemic origins inquiry

Published by The i paper (26th July, 2021) Just imagine if a strange new virus emerged suddenly in Salisbury, with... Read Full Article

China’s first virus cover-up

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th July, 2021) Towards the end of 2002, several chefs and animal traders in... Read Full Article

Now Lancet is accused of costing lives by sitting on a key study showing human transmission of Covid-19

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th July 2021) The world’s most famous medical journal, The Lancet, sat on vital... Read Full Article

Did scientists stifle the lab-leak theory?

Published by UnHerd (22nd July, 2021) In September 2019, even as a new respiratory virus may have started circulating in... Read Full Article

Chaotic and contemptuous leaders leave the public confused on Covid

Published by The i paper (19th July, 2021) It is easy to forget that when the pandemic first emerged from... Read Full Article

Why won’t The Lancet admit it was wrong?

Published by UnHerd (6th July, 2021) Someone needs to tell The Lancet the most basic tenet of crisis management: when in a... Read Full Article

World’s most famous medical journal is accused of doing China’s dirty work – by denouncing the Covid lab leak theory as a conspiracy

Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th June, 2012) Earlier this year, the prominent German psychiatrist Thomas Schulze sent a... Read Full Article

One question our chief scientist needs to answer

Published by UnHerd (21st June, 2021) Sir Patrick Vallance has had a good pandemic. The country’s chief scientific officer pushed... Read Full Article

Head of Wellcome Trust accused of ‘chilling’ bid to stifle debate on lab leak theory

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th June, 2021) Shortly before the pandemic, Sir Jeremy Farrar, head of the globally... 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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