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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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A lesson on universities for the government

Published by The Sun (20th February, 2018) Theresa May’s review into university funding, announced yesterday after much briefing, should be... Read Full Article

Keeping medical cannabis from children is callous and foolish

Published by The Guardian (19th February, 2018) The first medical marijuana dispensaries in Pennsylvania have opened their doors over the... Read Full Article

Winds of change blowing across Africa

Published by The ipaper (19th February, 2018) Nelson Mandela and Jacob Zuma share some things in common. Both were key... Read Full Article

A grotesque corruption of compassion

Published by The Mail on Sunday (February 18th, 2018) How the mighty fall. For decades, the self-appointed saints of our... Read Full Article

Haiti earthquake survivors told: if you want aid, pay or sleep with us

Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th March, 2018) A British-funded charity supported by Meghan Markle has admitted its workers traded... Read Full Article

Water wars as day zero looms

Published by Mail on Sunday (18th February, 2018) The vista could hardly be more barren or forbidding – a parched... Read Full Article

A world without Down’s Syndrome children?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th February, 2018) Watching Erica Gaarn-Larsen playing with her six-year-old son Philip in their... Read Full Article

A broken prison system – but Scotland pushes for reform

Published by The i paper (29th January, 2018) Two years ago, in those far off days before the Brexit debacle,... Read Full Article

Ten practical remedies for the ailing NHS

Published by CapX (26th January, 2018) I went to hospital earlier this week for a small but troubling skin condition.... Read Full Article

Oxfam’s attack on inequality might be more persuasive if its own bosses weren’t fat cats

Published by UnHerd (22nd January, 2018) It must be hard for a major player in the poverty industry when you... 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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