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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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Is China hiding the truth about Covid?

Published by The i paper (7th December, 2020) Suddenly we can look forward to the future with some flickers of... Read Full Article

The toxic British worship of the NHS

Published by UnHerd (2nd December, 2020) When Michael Gove sought to shore up support for the Government’s polices on lockdown,... Read Full Article

The lockdown conundrum

Published by The i paper (12th October, 2020) As the nights darken, coronavirus cases surge and job losses soar, the... Read Full Article

The music industry has been left to die

Published by UnHerd (12th October, 2020) After more than a decade in the music business, Georgia Barnes was on the... Read Full Article

What can we learn about lockdowns from the country whose dictator told them to fight Covid by drinking vodka?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th September, 2020) As the sun slid from the evening sky over Minsk, clusters of... Read Full Article

Trust: the missing ingredient in our pandemic response

Published by The i paper (14th September, 2020) Boris Johnson hailed ‘a new dawn’ for Britain after winning an election... Read Full Article

Africa’s catastrophic Covid response

Published by UnHerd (11th September, 2020) As Covid-19 began to sweep across the planet earlier this year, the warnings about... Read Full Article

Where is Wuhan virus researcher who was named as Patient Zero?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd August, 2020) The US government’s leading health research body has raised a series... Read Full Article

The older workers condemned by Covid

Published by UnHerd (21st August, 2020) Five months ago, Sandra Ackland became one of the millions of British workers furloughed... Read Full Article

‘I had to flee my home and family to tell the world the truth about China’s cover-up before I became another of the disappeared’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th August, 2020) When Li-Meng Yan was asked to pop into her boss’s office... 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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