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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

  • Trump’s talk of land grabs are a gift to dictators
  • 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

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The sweet smell of liberation as Ukraine pushes back and people emerge from bunkers

Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd May, 2022) Tamara was sitting on a bench outside, warming herself in the... Read Full Article

Even McDonalds couldn’t save Russia

Published by UnHerd (17th May, 2022) The arrival of Big Macs, skinny fries and those absurdly-thick shakes in Moscow 32... Read Full Article

Putin’s executioners shot these three brothers in the head and buried them. Miraculously, one dug himself out and lived to tell the tale

Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th May, 2022) As Mykola Kulichenko stumbled out of the Russian military jeep, his... Read Full Article

Exposed: Putin’s Stalinist deportation plan for two million Ukrainians

Published by The Daily Mail (14th May, 2022) Russia planned the forcible deportation of up to two million Ukrainians before... Read Full Article

The songbird of Mariupol who’ll fight on till the end

Published by The Daily Mail (9th May, 2022) The shaky video picks out the woman leading the singing in the... Read Full Article

Tiny sliver of land that could drag Nato into all-out war with Russia

Published by The Daily Mail (6th May, 2022) The attack by three men could not have been more brazen: a... Read Full Article

Our timid tolerance for tyranny

Published by The i paper (25th April, 2022) The president of a European nation gave a surreal press conference on... Read Full Article

Boris Johnson is rescuing his own career when helping Ukraine

Published by The i paper (11th April, 2022) Vladimir Putin’s bungled invasion has failed to capture Ukraine and oust its... Read Full Article

Is this depravity intrinsic to war, to Russians – or to all humanity once its veneer of civilisation is stripped away?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th April, 2022) On the right bank of Kyiv, close to the city centre, lies... Read Full Article

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

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Recent Articles

  • Trump’s talk of land grabs are a gift to dictators
  • 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

Tags

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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