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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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  • 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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My hero of 2014 sacrificed herself to save countless others

Published by The Independent (29th December, 2014) News is by nature a grim business, the most terrible and tragic tales... Read Full Article

Has ‘Teflon Nigel’ become unstuck at last?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st December, 2014) NigelĀ Farage is a cheerful fellow, the sort who no doubt enjoys... Read Full Article

Message written in blood shows weakness of Taliban

Published by The Daily Mail (16th December, 2014) At first staff thought it was just children playing a boisterous game,... Read Full Article

Inside the migrant jails of Fortress Europe

Published by al-Jazeera (16th December, 2014) Travelling around Libya in those days when pictures of a preening Muammar Gaddafi loomed... Read Full Article

Politicians blame immigrants for their own mistakes

Published by The Independent (15th December, 2014) Myths and mantras are swirling around the increasingly-toxic immigration debate as mainstream parties... Read Full Article

Foreign aid millions helped Iran hang 3000 people – including women and children

Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th December, 2014) British aid has assisted the brutal execution of nearly 3,000 people... Read Full Article

‘I was waterboarded by British special forces’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th December, 2014) A Pakistani man suing the Government for damages has detailed a... Read Full Article

I’ll reveal how MI6 gave me to Gaddafi’s thugs

Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th December, 2014) A Libyan dissident kidnapped by US forces with the help of... Read Full Article

A glimpse of grass-roots politics with lessons for all main parties

Published in The Independent (1st December, 2014) A successful politician once told me that when receiving invitations to events, he... Read Full Article

Sunk by the EU quotacrats

Published by The Mail on Sunday (30th November, 2014) The rusting stern of the Cornelis Vrolijk towers over the quayside... 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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