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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

  • 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
  • Why isn’t China a pariah state?

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Johnson is corroding the Tory brand

Published by The i paper (13th December, 2021) If Boris Johnson hosts another Christmas quiz, here is a possible question:... Read Full Article

How China made Covid worse

Published by UnHerd (9th December, 2021) Two years ago this week, a middle-aged man in Wuhan caught a strange respiratory... Read Full Article

Andrew Mitchell’s friends in Rwanda

Published by UnHerd (6th December, 2021) Earlier this year, Baroness Kennedy was contacted by the two daughters of Paul Rusesabagina... Read Full Article

Quizzes, parties and crashing polls

Published by The i paper (29th November, 2021) If Boris Johnson hosts another Christmas quiz, here is a possible question:... Read Full Article

Spectre of war in the Balkans

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th November, 2021) Munira Subasic lost her husband and teenage son in the darkest... Read Full Article

Social care crisis spinning out of control

Published by The I paper (22nd November, 2021) We can see clearly the shape of  Boris Johnson’s premiership after 28... Read Full Article

Exposed: China’s 18 concentration camps

Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st November, 2021) As he strolled along the street in the Chinese city of Urumqi,... Read Full Article

Laser attack on border guards

Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th November, 2021) Border police have been blinded with lasers and strobe lights as they... Read Full Article

A grotesque game of human ping-pong

Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th November, 2021) We met deep inside Europe’s last remaining primeval forest, where bison... Read Full Article

Prosecuting all elderly Nazis is vital for society

Published by The Jewish Chronicle (4th November, 2021) The screens in the makeshift German court showed those horribly familiar pictures... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • 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
  • Why isn’t China a pariah state?

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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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