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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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China’s stooges expose the real Covid conspiracy

Published by UnHerd (9th January, 2025) The World Health Organisation ended 2024 by reminding us that it is five years... Read Full Article

‘Before the war, we saw Russians alive. Now we only see them dead’

Published by The Daily Mail (24th February, 2023) THE Ukrainian soldiers were hiding among the trees and buried in hobbit-like... Read Full Article

The child snatcher

Published by The Daily Mail (27th October, 2022) The blonde woman in the polka-dot dress was clutching a huge teddy... Read Full Article

Russia’s monstrous new tactic: forcing Ukrainians to fight against their own side

Published by The Daily Mail (29th September, 2022) Oksana did not want her children indoctrinated by Russia after Vladimir Putin’s invading... Read Full Article

Boxed in and snarling back – but this is Putin’s admission that his war is an astonishing blunder

Published by The Daily Mail (21st September, 2022) Vladimir Putin likes to tell a story about the lesson he learned... Read Full Article

The ugly truth about psychiatric care

Published by The i paper (15th November, 2021) It is more than three years since I wrote an angry piece... Read Full Article

End the farce of MPs taking second jobs

Published by The i paper (8th November, 2021) Sir John Major was on fiery form interviewed over the weekend by... Read Full Article

Our troops are doing their best. But Kabul shows how impotent we are without America

Published by The Daily Mail (25th August, 2021) There are few institutions that can still unite our nation in uncritical... Read Full Article

The sickening hypocrisy of Bush, Blair and the war on terror

Published by The i paper (9th August, 2021) Twenty years after lethal attacks turned aircraft into weapons and sparked the... Read Full Article

Why won’t The Lancet admit it was wrong?

Published by UnHerd (6th July, 2021) Someone needs to tell The Lancet the most basic tenet of crisis management: when in a... 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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