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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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New shadow warfare: How Putin is fanning the flames of discontent

Published by the i paper (1st August, 2016) Two years ago Ukraine held a presidential ballot intended to complete the... Read Full Article

British reporter arrested by ‘torture’ police funded by UK

Published by The Mail on Sunday (31st July, 2016) An elderly British journalist investigating corruption in Bangladesh has been arrested... Read Full Article

Why is Britain shoring up Mugabe’s brutal regime?

Published by The i paper (25th July, 2016) After almost four decades in power, Robert Mugabe’s vice-like grip on Zimbabwe... Read Full Article

Terrorists confuse aims with targets

Published by The Observer (24th July, 2016) Does Terrorism Work by Richard English (Oxford University Press) Two decades ago I... Read Full Article

Should the Nice massacre be blamed on twisted devotion to religion?

Published by the i paper (18th July, 2016) Like so many children Yannis Coviaux loved the beach, playing in the... Read Full Article

Standing in the blood of vengeance… against a coup beaten by FaceTime

Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th July, 2016) It was an astonishing call to arms, made from an iPhone... Read Full Article

David Cameron saved his party from fusty white male irrelevance

Published by The Daily Telegraph (14th July, 2016) We saw the classic David Cameron in his last Prime Minister’s Questions:... Read Full Article

May thwarted the Tory right. But the Brexit nightmare will haunt her

Published by The Guardian (12th July, 2016) Shortly after David Cameron’s election as Conservative leader, we were throwing around ideas... Read Full Article

Leadsom heralds a return of the ‘nasty party’

Published by the ipaper (11th July, 2016) Shortly after the turn of the century a new party chairwoman stood before... Read Full Article

The earthquake that upended British politics

Published by The Wall Street Journal (9th July, 2016) British politics and governance have been shaken during the past few... 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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