Logo
  • Contact
  • About
  • Home
  • Aid & development
  • Africa
    • Algeria
    • Congo
    • Egypt
    • Equatorial Guinea
    • Eritrea
    • Ethiopia
    • Gabon
    • General
    • Ghana
    • Ivory Coast
    • Kenya
    • Liberia
    • Libya
    • Mali
    • Nigeria
    • Rwanda
    • Somalia
    • Somaliland
    • South Africa
    • South Sudan
    • Sudan
    • Swaziland
    • Tanzania
    • Tunisia
    • Uganda
    • Zambia
    • Zimbabwe
  • Arts
    • Books
    • Film
    • Music
  • Business & economics
  • Covid19
  • Disability
  • Europe
    • Albania
    • Austria
    • Belgium
    • Denmark
    • Estonia
    • European Union
    • France
    • Germany
    • Greece
    • Greenland
    • Holland
    • Hungary
    • Iceland
    • Ireland
    • Italy
    • Norway
    • Poland
    • Russia
    • Serbia
    • Spain
    • Sweden
    • Switzerland
    • Ukraine
  • Health
  • Media & technology
  • Politics
  • Public policy
    • Crime
    • Defence
    • Drugs
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Housing
    • Immigration
    • Police
    • Race
    • Social care
    • Transport
    • Welfare
    • Whitehall
  • Travel
  • World
    • Afghanistan
    • Bahrain
    • Canada
    • China
    • Colombia
    • Haiti
    • India
    • Iran
    • Iraq
    • Israel, West Bank & Gaza
    • Jordan
    • Kashmir
    • Lebanon
    • Mexico
    • Montserrat
    • Nepal
    • North Korea
    • Pakistan
    • Philippines
    • Saudi Arabia
    • South Korea
    • Syria
    • Taiwan
    • Turkey
    • United States
Logo

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
  • Twitter: @ianbirrell
  • Facebook: click here

Recent Articles

  • I’ve seen the fragility of our way of life, how precious is peace and the need for constant vigilance against tyranny
  • Town of the Damned
  • World’s most infamous mercenary steps out the shadows
  • Slaughter of the conscripts
  • How to fix the NHS and social care

Tags

aid autism Blair Boris Brexit Cameron China coalition Conservatives Corbyn coronavirus crime Daily Mail democracy Dfid Disability drugs Ethiopia EU Guardian human rights immigration Independent ipaper Isis Labour LibDems Libya May Miliband MoS NHS Nigeria Observer Putin Russia social care Syria Times Trump Ukip Ukraine UN UnHerd USA


Tweets by ianbirrell

Ankara plays pass the asylum-seeker

Published by The i paper (9th March 2020) The scenes of squalor and stories of despair had a sordid sense... Read Full Article

Greek police beat us, stole our money, phones, even our shoes. Then they dumped us back in Turkey

Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th March, 2020) Having fled one of Syria’s many bloodstained battlegrounds, Muhammad spent years struggling... Read Full Article

Left to rot on Lesbos

Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th July, 2018) I drove past tavernas filled with tourists looking out over fishing... Read Full Article

To austerity and beyond by Yanis the menace

Published by The Observer (24th April, 2016) And The Weak Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis (Bodley Head) It... Read Full Article

Pope’s humanity puts others to shame

Published by The iPaper (17th April, 2016) Hasan and Nour Essa are both engineers, who fled their besieged, bombed and... Read Full Article

100,000 reasons why the EU is broken (whether Britain is In or Out)

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th February, 2016) Victoria Square, which took its name from the British Queen who... Read Full Article

The big society bites back on refugees

Published by The Independent (7th September, 2015) Over the past five years I have spent much of my time covering... Read Full Article

The British expats helping Syrian refugees

Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th September, 2015) As the inflatable boat overloaded with Syrian refugees neared the rocky... Read Full Article

Delivered from hell to the cauldron of Kos

Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th August, 2015) Helen and Mustafa got married almost a year ago – and... Read Full Article

Greeks predict ‘kiss of death’ tax will cripple tourist industry

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th July, 2015) Greece’s former finance minister has warned that the austerity programme imposed... Read Full Article

1 2 Next »

Recent Articles

  • I’ve seen the fragility of our way of life, how precious is peace and the need for constant vigilance against tyranny
  • Town of the Damned
  • World’s most infamous mercenary steps out the shadows
  • Slaughter of the conscripts
  • How to fix the NHS and social care

Tags

aid autism Blair Boris Brexit Cameron China coalition Conservatives Corbyn coronavirus crime Daily Mail democracy Dfid Disability drugs Ethiopia EU Guardian human rights immigration Independent ipaper Isis Labour LibDems Libya May Miliband MoS NHS Nigeria Observer Putin Russia social care Syria Times Trump Ukip Ukraine UN UnHerd USA

Twitter

Tweets by @ianbirrell

© 2023 Copyright Ian Birrell. Built by FoamShore