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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

  • ‘Is it a holiday?’ the children asked when they weren’t woken up for school. ‘No, dears,’ mum replied. ‘The war has started…’
  • People’s army that is stepping up for the fight
  • ‘It’s awful to think people who survived WWII in their youth have fallen victim in old age to the insanity of a mad man’
  • The West must punish this thug as he rips apart another nation
  • Amid fog of this weird war, a day to honour the dead

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The political response to Europe’s migration crisis has been shameful

Published by The Independent (22nd June, 2015) A few days ago I was sitting in Athens with an official from... Read Full Article

A country that is dying to leave the euro

Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th June, 2015) How does a nation die? This week, in the beleaguered hospitals... Read Full Article

Who will put Greece out of its misery?

Published by The Daily Telegraph (5th June, 2015) Omonia Square used to be the thriving commercial heart of the Greek... Read Full Article

Inside the migrant jails of Fortress Europe

Published by al-Jazeera (16th December, 2014) Travelling around Libya in those days when pictures of a preening Muammar Gaddafi loomed... Read Full Article

Orphans of the Greek meltdown

Published in The Mail on Sunday (June 23rd, 2013) Laughing children play in a pine-scented courtyard on a warm summer’s... Read Full Article

Staring into the abyss

Published in the Daily Mail (February 18th, 2012) When Eleni Nikolaidou agreed to help a university research project, she was... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • ‘Is it a holiday?’ the children asked when they weren’t woken up for school. ‘No, dears,’ mum replied. ‘The war has started…’
  • People’s army that is stepping up for the fight
  • ‘It’s awful to think people who survived WWII in their youth have fallen victim in old age to the insanity of a mad man’
  • The West must punish this thug as he rips apart another nation
  • Amid fog of this weird war, a day to honour the dead

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

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