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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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Musicians deserve a helping hand

Published by The i paper (25th January, 2021) Seventeen years ago, I spent a day in Pimlico with Paul Weller. We met... Read Full Article

Theresa May is in no position to lecture on moral leadership

Published by The Times (21st January, 2021) There is a maxim in politics that leaders are defined as much by... Read Full Article

The inhumanity of deeming some lives ‘more valuable’ than others

Published by The Daily Mail (19th January, 2021) Deborah James is a deputy head teacher, a mother of two children... Read Full Article

The double standards of sport

Published by The i paper (18th January, 2021) Maro Itoje went to Harrow, one of Britain’s most expensive private schools,... Read Full Article

It’ll be an unforgivable insult to two million dead if world lets China bury the truth

Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th January, 2021) It has taken 14 months since a sinister new disease emerged in... Read Full Article

America points finger at China lab

Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th January, 2021) (Written with Glen Owen, Political Editor) The Chinese government is under... Read Full Article

World experts condemn WHO inquiry as a ‘charade’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th February, 2021) The World Health Organisation’s inquiry into the source of the pandemic... Read Full Article

Britain is callously indifferent to disabled people

Published by The Daily Telegraph (16th January, 2021) When I asked my doughty friend, a working mum on the other... Read Full Article

Selfishness laid bare in one photo

Published by The Daily Mail (15th January, 2021) Just six days ago, Pete Calveley sent a letter to reassure residents... Read Full Article

Bobi Wine and the battle for Uganda

Published by UnHerd (14th January, 2021) It seems strange to think that when Yoweri Museveni grabbed control of Uganda 35... 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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