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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

  • Anthony Fauci’s pardon shames America
  • We must listen to angry young men
  • 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

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The £1billion secret

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th December, 2016) The Prime Minister’s most senior security adviser has told MPs £1.1... Read Full Article

Poverty barons in dirty trick probe

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th December, 2016) Two ‘dirty tricks’ inquiries have been launched into Britain’s biggest specialist... Read Full Article

The spice of prison life

Published by the ipaper (5th December, 2016) The ambulances turn up at Bristol Prison with monotonous regularity. Once every few... Read Full Article

Revealed: How Britain pours £568m into war-torn Somalia despite ‘certain’ risk it will be stolen and used to fund terrorism

Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th December, 2016) The Government is pumping more than half a billion pounds of... Read Full Article

I’ve got hold of ‘Official Sensitive’ government business plans. They can help us on bids

Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th December, 2016) A former government official now working for Adam Smith International obtained... Read Full Article

Exposed: how foreign aid giant conned MPs with fake evidence

Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th December, 2016) Fat cat foreign aid contractors paid millions by the taxpayer tried... Read Full Article

An enemy of the people

Published by the ipaper (28th November, 2016) Shortly after the announcement Fidel Castro had died, state security agents turned up... Read Full Article

Prosperity is about more than just money

Published by CapX (3rd November, 2016) Shortly after becoming prime minister six years ago, David Cameron reiterated his much-mocked idea... Read Full Article

The full cost of Brexit is now becoming clear

Published by CapX (23rd November, 2016) Economists are not known for unity of outlook when predicting the future. But before... Read Full Article

At last: a stirring defence of liberalism

Published by The i paper (21st November, 2016) The Tory moderniser and former minister Anna Soubry was in magnificent form... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Anthony Fauci’s pardon shames America
  • We must listen to angry young men
  • 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

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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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