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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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  • 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
  • Why isn’t China a pariah state?
  • We don’t need another review. The care system is rotting while politicians play tawdry games

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Fear for ex-British soldier captured by Russian forces after steel plant surrender

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th June, 2022) A former British soldier has disappeared after being captured by pro-Russian... Read Full Article

Johnson must go – but it will take more than this to restore trust in democracy

Published by The i paper (27th June, 2022) The wedding I attended on Saturday could not have felt more English,... Read Full Article

The West needs to show strength – like Ukraine

Published by The i paper (20th June, 2022) Four weeks before Vladimir Putin sent his tanks and troops over the... Read Full Article

A long, dark shadow

Published by The Spectator (18th June, 2022) Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of... Read Full Article

Ukraine’s newest heroes: the brave Russian defectors joining the fight against Putin

Published by The Daily Mail (16th June, 2022) Like all his Ukrainian army comrades, Volodymyr Grotskov is fuelled by deeply-held... Read Full Article

The prince is as hypocritical as the PM

Published by The i paper (13th June, 2022) Prince Charles is right: the Government’s plan to send people seeking asylum... Read Full Article

Lethal aim of the husband and wife snipers

Published by The Daily Mail (8th June, 2022) Oksana Krasnova smiles when I ask if she enjoys her job as... Read Full Article

Putin the Great? Hardly…

Published by The i paper (6th June, 2022) When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, many officials took down... Read Full Article

Enemy at the gates

Published by The Daily Mail (2nd June, 2022) First came the huge explosion in a school yard that damaged 2,400... Read Full Article

Heroes of the resistance who are sabotaging Putin’s war machine

Published by The Daily Mail (31st May, 2022) The bomb, almost 2lb of high explosive, was hidden in a fuse... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • 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
  • Why isn’t China a pariah state?
  • We don’t need another review. The care system is rotting while politicians play tawdry games

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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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