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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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The PM is undermining our freedoms

Published by The i paper (22nd March 2021) For five years, Global Britain has been a slogan in search of... Read Full Article

‘Fasten your seat belts, folks!’ How the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd is already a TV circus

Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st March 2021) ‘Fasten your seat belts, folks!’ exclaimed the excited television presenter. ‘Our... Read Full Article

The making of a monster

Published by The Times (20th March, 2021) Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime... Read Full Article

The PM made a catastrophic error by pledging to return aid spending to hit the target

Published by The Daily Telegraph (18th March, 2021) Boris Johnson’s landmark foreign policy review, published on Tuesday, revealed the extent... Read Full Article

The dangerous naivety of Green anti-vaxxers

Published by UnHerd (15th March, 2021) When I was at university more than three decades ago, the environment began to... Read Full Article

National newspaper gives a pulpit to a bloodstained dictator

Published by UnHerd (3rd March, 2021) The Rwandan president Paul Kagame is a master at playing Westerners for adulation and... Read Full Article

The justice system is failing women

Published by The i paper (15th March, 2021) Truly, these are strange times. Last week began with a flood of... Read Full Article

Will we ever confront this sacred cow?

Published by The i paper (8th March, 2021) Could there be a more righteous battle? On one side stands the... Read Full Article

Should the state enforce vaccination?

Published by The i paper (1st March, 2021) Britain’s vaccine programme has been a stellar success, all the more welcome... Read Full Article

Why the reluctance among some ethnic minorities to have Covid jabs?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th February, 2021) Jama is a driver who, before the pandemic, ferried people but... 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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