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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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Pandemic lessons from other places

Published by The i paper (10th August, 2020) I have resumed my job as a foreign reporter following a four-month... Read Full Article

Sweden was pilloried by the whole world for refusing to lock down. But was it right?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th August, 2020) As she sat dangling her legs over the water while waiting... Read Full Article

The land with no face masks

Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd August, 2020) As I walked around the sun-dappled streets of Amsterdam, something felt... Read Full Article

Coronavirus causing pain for Putin

Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th April, 2020) Badly paid doctors have quit in droves, fearing for their lives... Read Full Article

We need to care for the carers

Published by The i paper (6th April, 2020) With cruel inevitability, coronavirus is ripping its deadly course through care homes.... Read Full Article

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

Notes from a cruel climate

Published by The Observer (23rd February, 2020) The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts (Doubleday) Sophy Roberts’s first glimpse... 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

The country that closed its psychiatric hospitals

Published by Tortoise (17th December, 2019) Elisabetta Paci spent a year planning to take her own life after deciding her... 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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