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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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‘How could our country lie to us so completely?’

Published by The Guardian (27th August, 2016) One day, when he was 25 years old, Park Sang-hak was strolling around... Read Full Article

Clubs are closing and British culture will suffer

Published by theipaper (22nd August, 2016) Seventeen years is a long time in club culture. Yet Fabric has survived and... Read Full Article

Now Theresa May can see the mountainous challenge ahead

Published by The Guardian (19th August, 2016) Having reached the political summit with surprising ease, Theresa May has headed to... Read Full Article

The bright side of Brexit: we can ditch daft farm subsidies

Published by the ipaper (15th August, 2016) Slowly but surely, the consequences of that self-harming Brexit vote become clearer. The... Read Full Article

How can Britain justify propping up Mugabe?

Published by The Daily Telegraph (12th August, 2016) First the price of mobile data went up drastically overnight. Then it... Read Full Article

Free speech – or hate speech?

Published by the ipaper (8th August, 2016) Jérémy Gabriel was born with a rare congenital disorder called Treacher Collins Syndrome,... Read Full Article

Revealed: terror training base Israel claims was built by British aid

Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th August, 2016) A training base built by an Islamist terrorist group behind suicide... Read Full Article

We fixate on the Ukip pantomime. That’s a serious mistake

Published by The Guardian (5th August, 2016) You need a heart of stone not to laugh. Stephen Woolfe, favourite to... Read Full Article

Murder in the blue lagoon

Published by The Spectator (4th August, 2016) The Jolly Roger Social Club: A True Story of A Killer in Paradise... Read Full Article

Honouring my friends from Number Ten is wrong

Published by The Daily Telegraph (2nd August, 2016) There is no doubt the leaked list of gongs that David Cameron... 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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