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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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‘Don’t let this madman force us from our homes again’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd January, 2022) Ekaterina Pereverzeva is struggling to stop fears of war tormenting her... Read Full Article

‘This is our land and I’ve no other option than to fight for it’

Published by The Daily Mail (22nd January, 2022) Maksym Bilyk is a young man who thinks carefully before speaking, works... Read Full Article

Fears and fighting spirit of nation in Kremlin crosshairs

Published by The Daily Mail (19th January, 2022) Oksana Lanskaya, a mother and successful Ukrainian food entrepreneur, admits being scared... Read Full Article

Putin’s torture chamber at Number Three, Paradise Street

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th December, 2021) For almost 1,000 days, Stanislav Aseyev was held in a secret... Read Full Article

How Angela Merkel let the West become Vladimir Putin’s pawn in the new Cold War

Published by The Mail on Sunday (September 26th, 2021) With its long wooden pier poking out into the Baltic Sea... Read Full Article

We are in a race to save democracy

Published by The i paper (2nd August, 2021) On Thursday, I flipped on the television before heading to bed. People... Read Full Article

The doctor in a flowing white dress risking her life to stand up to Putin

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th April, 2021) There are not many doctors who visit patients in a flowing long... Read Full Article

The West can play a part defeating dictatorship

Published by The i paper (1st February, 2021) For the second weekend running, protests against the festering regime of Vladimir... 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

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

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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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