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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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Real Conservatives should speak out

Published by The i paper (14th December, 2020) So this is how it ends. After 47 years as a leading... Read Full Article

Floating factories as big as football pitches plundering our seas and killing dolphins

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th December, 2020) The bodies of dolphins and porpoises have washed up with alarming... Read Full Article

Aid charities miss the point with call for free Covid jabs

Published by The Times (10th December, 2020) Amid the joy at seeing the first elderly Britons inoculated against Covid-19, a... Read Full Article

How Finland became a Covid success

Published by UnHerd (7th December, 2020) Two days before the Tories won their thumping general election victory last year, a... Read Full Article

Fix the care system and end these inhumane detentions

Published by The i paper (30th November, 2020) Susie* is 16 years old. She has autism and special needs. And... Read Full Article

Sickening aid bungs to China’s repellent dictators must end

Published by The Daily Mail (25th November, 2020) You have probably never heard of Zhou Qiang but he is one... Read Full Article

Time to ditch white saviour complex

Published by The i paper (23rd November, 2020) The Government’s debt, inflamed by frantic efforts to fight the impact of... Read Full Article

Stoking divisions to the end

Published by The i paper (16th November, 2020) The crowd charged down the street. Then there were shouts, scuffles and... Read Full Article

Moneybags Miliband gets his mates megabucks too

Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th November, 2020) Former Labour Minister David Miliband’s charity has hired several of his close... Read Full Article

The courage of a madman

Published by The Spectator (14th November, 2020) The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest... 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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