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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 pistol-packing extremist set to be Austria’s leader

Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd May 2016) Norbert Hofer is a father- of-four who speaks softly, smiles often... Read Full Article

Boris is a dimming star in the Brexit debate

Published by The ipaper (16th May, 2016) Last week, the former Prime Minister Sir John Major made one of his... Read Full Article

If you want us to be like Albania, you’re an ass

Published by The Mail on Sunday  (24th April, 2016) Qemal was sitting in the shade of a peach tree in... 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

This is about more than just money

Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th April, 2016) When David Cameron told me he was running for the Tory Party... Read Full Article

The foreign aid target is highly flawed

Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd April,2016) Since the time David Cameron became leader of the Conservatives, I have... Read Full Article

Give thanks for Nigel Farage

Published by The i paper & The Independent (28th March, 2016) Last week I was in Amsterdam, where I joined... Read Full Article

How British aid ends up funding terrorists

Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th March, 2015) Ahmad Musa sits beside me, a convicted double murderer sentenced to... Read Full Article

The proud island that floated free

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th March, 2016) The problem was simple but infuriating: ‘I had to travel to... 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

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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 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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