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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

  • 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
  • The tragedy of Joe Biden: he betrayed democracy
  • A woman of heroic strength and dignity

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The flowering of democracy, or the birth of another Iran?

Published in The Mail on Sunday (January 30th, 2011) For the fifth day in a row, Egypt was consumed with... Read Full Article

Hell or high water

Published in The Spectator (January 24th, 2011) Unbroken: An extraordinary true story of courage and survival by air, sea and... Read Full Article

Cameron is not the villain in this tragic case

Published in The Times (January 21st, 2011) My daughter did not sleep last night. Granted, she is a teenager, so... Read Full Article

It’s time the world listened to new stories out of Africa

Published in The Observer (January 20th, 2011) Eleni Gabre-Madhin rings the bell and another day of frenetic dealing starts at... Read Full Article

Why Cameron is inviting a Viking invasion

Published in The Times (January 19th, 2011) For decades the British Left was held captive by Stockholm syndrome. It looked... Read Full Article

Why a fruit and veg seller could unleash wave of revolutions

Published in the Mail on Sunday (January 16th, 2011) It all began with the despair of one man, a young... Read Full Article

One year on, Haiti is still in the grip of despair and chaos. And the huge aid effort you funded is to blame

Published in the Daily Mail (January 13th, 2011) The rows of tents seem to stretch on for ever, a ­symbol... Read Full Article

Brand detox remains the Tories’ prime task

Published in the Financial Times (January 4th, 2011) After weeks of muttering and coded articles, the new year has arrived... Read Full Article

There has never been a better time to be alive

Published in the London Evening Standard (January 4th, 2011) These are difficult days. Not just because for many people it... Read Full Article

Must my daughter be bullied because of this callous comedy?

Published in The Times (December 29th, 2010) In my school playground boys refusing to join a kickaround were called “poofs”... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • 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
  • The tragedy of Joe Biden: he betrayed democracy
  • A woman of heroic strength and dignity

Tags

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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