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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 scientists at Wuhan lab helped Chinese army in secret project to find animal viruses

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th April, 2021) Scientists studying bat diseases at China’s maximum-security laboratory in Wuhan were... Read Full Article

The doctor in a flowing white dress risking her life to stand up to Putin

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th April, 2021) There are not many doctors who visit patients in a flowing long... Read Full Article

How politics is corrupted by cash

Published by The i paper (19th April, 2021) Political careers all end in failure, according to a famous dictum, yet... Read Full Article

Integrity? Public service? This lobbying scandal smacks of something we’d see in a banana republic

Published by The Daily Mail (17th April, 2021) It smacks of something we might expect in a seedy banana republic... Read Full Article

The Covid dissidents taking on China

Published by UnHerd (13th April, 2021) Feng Zijian played a central role in the World Health Organisation’s inquiry into the... Read Full Article

The blinkered war on drugs cannot be won

Published by The i paper (12th April, 2021) The bust began with a tip-off in the Netherlands. This led German... Read Full Article

A Green light from Germany

Published by The i paper (5th April, 2021) Angela Merkel has dominated her party, her country and our continent for... Read Full Article

What a surprise: world health ‘experts’ have let China off the hook on Covid

Published by The Daily Mail (31st March, 2021) More than 420 days have passed since the World Health Organisation declared... Read Full Article

Nike’s shows the conflict between ethics and profits

Published by The i paper (29th March, 2021) Like most modern multinationals, the sportswear giant Nike likes to present itself... Read Full Article

‘A lab leak isn’t 100% certain but it seems to be the only logical source of Covid’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th March, 2021) A cluster of researchers from China’s secretive Wuhan laboratories fell sick... 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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