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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

  • Double standards of ‘caring capitalism’
  • New evidence that Beijing hid truth about Covid origin and possible leak from Wuhan lab
  • The secret messages behind the lab leak cover-up
  • Starmer needs to change his tune
  • A new threat to American democracy

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Putin’s missile madness may backfire

Published by The i paper (5th June, 2023) The hail of Russian attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine has become remorseless.... Read Full Article

‘They need fighter planes and long range missiles too’

Published by The Daily Mail (26th January, 2023) Delighted Ukrainians shared selfies on social media yesterday in which they showed... Read Full Article

Germany risks becoming a pariah in Europe

Published by The i paper (23rd January, 2023) Russia’s generals have long thought that they could win a war with... Read Full Article

A grotesque game of human ping-pong

Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th November, 2021) We met deep inside Europe’s last remaining primeval forest, where bison... Read Full Article

Prosecuting all elderly Nazis is vital for society

Published by The Jewish Chronicle (4th November, 2021) The screens in the makeshift German court showed those horribly familiar pictures... 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 secretary of evil and the dark shadows of history

Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th October, 2021) Eighty years ago this weekend, a young SS recruit started working... Read Full Article

How Angela Merkel let the West become Vladimir Putin’s pawn in the new Cold War

Published by The Mail on Sunday (September 26th, 2021) With its long wooden pier poking out into the Baltic Sea... Read Full Article

A Green light from Germany

Published by The i paper (5th April, 2021) Angela Merkel has dominated her party, her country and our continent for... Read Full Article

How would you respond to the rise of Nazism?

Published by UnHerd (3rd January, 2020) My book of this decade might seem a strange choice. It was written in... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Double standards of ‘caring capitalism’
  • New evidence that Beijing hid truth about Covid origin and possible leak from Wuhan lab
  • The secret messages behind the lab leak cover-up
  • Starmer needs to change his tune
  • A new threat to American democracy

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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 Isis Labour LibDems Libya May Miliband MoS NHS Nigeria Observer Putin Russia Rwanda social care Syria Times Trump Ukip Ukraine UN UnHerd USA

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