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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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I have seen so many horrors – but this is barbarism

Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd December, 2018) I have interviewed abused women, bereaved parents, torture victims and girls... Read Full Article

Life appears to be cheap if you have learning disabilities

Published by The Times (26th December, 2018) It is hard to imagine someone dying from gangrene in London, their flat... Read Full Article

At 14, Jade was sent to hospital – and 13 years later they still won’t let her out

Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th December, 2018) Jade Hutchings was a child who adored acting and animals, friends... Read Full Article

Father of autistic girl treated like an animal and fed through a hatch sues NHS for torture and degradation

Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th December, 2018) The father of a teenage girl with autism locked for months... Read Full Article

MPs to investigate scandal of locked up youngsters with autism

Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th December, 2018) A parliamentary committee is to hold special sessions to investigate the... Read Full Article

How charities are corrupted by Whitehall

Published by UnHerd (30th November, 2018) The National Health Service has been ordered to start looking into the deaths of... Read Full Article

Profiteers of misery

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th November, 2018) A cluster of ‘fat cat’ private operators is creaming off hundreds... Read Full Article

The shame of imprisoning people for autism

Published by the i paper (29th October, 2018) Imagine that it was your son, your daughter, your sister, your brother.... Read Full Article

Shut away and threatened like animals

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) When Adele Green saw her 13-year-old son Eddie after his first... Read Full Article

Scandal of autistic youngsters locked in solitary confinement

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) Hundreds of people with autism and learning disabilities are being locked... 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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