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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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People with disabilities abandoned in Ukraine

Published by The i paper (4th April, 2022) It is almost six weeks since Vladimir Putin unleashed hell on Ukraine.... Read Full Article

A stealthy new age of eugenics

Published by The i paper (27th September, 2021) Heidi Crowter is 26 years old, married last year and is full... Read Full Article

We have failed people with autism

Published by The i paper (31st May, 2021) Dannielle Attree has spent half of her life being subjected to state-sanctioned... Read Full Article

The inhumanity of deeming some lives ‘more valuable’ than others

Published by The Daily Mail (19th January, 2021) Deborah James is a deputy head teacher, a mother of two children... Read Full Article

Britain is callously indifferent to disabled people

Published by The Daily Telegraph (16th January, 2021) When I asked my doughty friend, a working mum on the other... Read Full Article

Notes to a stranger: Thank you for smiling at my daughter

Published by The i paper (30h December, 2020) This is a note to the woman I passed a few weeks... Read Full Article

Fix the care system and end these inhumane detentions

Published by The i paper (30th November, 2020) Susie* is 16 years old. She has autism and special needs. And... Read Full Article

Who should decide when we die?

Published by The i paper (28th September, 2020) Yew Trees was called a hospital but sounds more like hell. It... Read Full Article

‘They are making people worse’

Published by The i paper (13th July, 2020) It is almost two years since I spoke to the distraught father... Read Full Article

A very deadly inequality

Published by The i paper (6th July, 2020) The investment guru Warren Buffet famously said that only when the tide... 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

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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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