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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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How migrants are being used as weapons

Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th August, 2021) The pandemic has crushed the global tourism industry, with thousands of flights... Read Full Article

We are in a race to save democracy

Published by The i paper (2nd August, 2021) On Thursday, I flipped on the television before heading to bed. People... Read Full Article

Britain’s criminal approach to drugs

Published by UnHerd (30th July, 2021) Our nation’s politicians have long been guilty of an inflated sense of exceptionalism. But... Read Full Article

A bloody disgrace

Published by The Daily Mail (July 29th, 2021) The Ken Clarke brand of politics — his straight-talking and dis-hevelled style... Read Full Article

China should not veto a pandemic origins inquiry

Published by The i paper (26th July, 2021) Just imagine if a strange new virus emerged suddenly in Salisbury, with... Read Full Article

China’s first virus cover-up

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th July, 2021) Towards the end of 2002, several chefs and animal traders in... Read Full Article

Now Lancet is accused of costing lives by sitting on a key study showing human transmission of Covid-19

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th July 2021) The world’s most famous medical journal, The Lancet, sat on vital... Read Full Article

Did scientists stifle the lab-leak theory?

Published by UnHerd (22nd July, 2021) In September 2019, even as a new respiratory virus may have started circulating in... Read Full Article

Chaotic and contemptuous leaders leave the public confused on Covid

Published by The i paper (19th July, 2021) It is easy to forget that when the pandemic first emerged from... Read Full Article

15 years in a slave labour camp – just for listening to pop music in North Korea

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th July, 2021) Three years ago, North Korea’s ‘Supreme Leader’ Kim Jong Un clapped along... 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?

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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