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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

  • 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
  • Jimmy Carter’s selfless work for the poor and sick after he left office serves as a stinging rebuke to the venality of Blair and Cameron

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Gunned down in a gangster state

Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st March, 2015) Boris Nemtsov knew he might one day be silenced. Now the... Read Full Article

Imagine if Isis was approaching and safety just over the sea

Published by The Independent (23rd February, 2014) The statistics and stories are so extreme they barely register any more. In... Read Full Article

Good result for Vladimir the Terrible

Published by The Independent (16th February, 2015) On a dank day last March I was chatting to tense Ukrainian officers... Read Full Article

Why the shocking price of Swiss cheese and skiing means the euro is heading for disaster

Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th January, 2015) Yesterday, in a McDonald’s in Switzerland, I saw people paying nearly... Read Full Article

Living in the shadow of the Wall

Published by The Daily Mail (2nd January, 2015) Born in the GDR by Hester Vaizey (OUP Oxford) As the daughter... Read Full Article

My hero of 2014 sacrificed herself to save countless others

Published by The Independent (29th December, 2014) News is by nature a grim business, the most terrible and tragic tales... 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

Sunk by the EU quotacrats

Published by The Mail on Sunday (30th November, 2014) The rusting stern of the Cornelis Vrolijk towers over the quayside... Read Full Article

The west is letting Putin get his way on Ukraine

Published by The Guardian (28th November, 2014) Ukraine’s new parliament was sworn in today. More than 400 members took their oaths, but... Read Full Article

How the Tories are helping Ukip

Published by The Independent (17th November, 2014) First Clacton, now Rochester – the unlikely landmarks of British political history as Ukip... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • 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
  • Jimmy Carter’s selfless work for the poor and sick after he left office serves as a stinging rebuke to the venality of Blair and Cameron

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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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