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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

  • Anthony Fauci’s pardon shames America
  • 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

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The solution to overcrowded prisons? Stop locking people up

Published by The i paper (16th October, 2017) Marc Maltby was only 23 years old. Yet he has just become... Read Full Article

Catalonian separatists and Brexiteers share self-defeating stupidity

Published by UnHerd (11th October, 2017) Spain celebrates its national day tomorrow. This is rather unfortunate timing for the annual... Read Full Article

Boris Johnson has wrecked the Tories. He should own the wreckage

Published by The Guardian (4th October, 2017) It was a dismal end to a strange, sombre conference. Last year Theresa... Read Full Article

Revenge of the Cameroons

Published by The i paper (9th October, 2017) Shortly before Theresa May became Prime Minister, I was having coffee with... Read Full Article

Great white tide to halt chaos

Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th October, 2017) They came in their thousands wearing white, releasing balloons and begging... Read Full Article

The Tory brand is toxic to the young

Published by The i paper (2nd October, 2017) How times change. When Conservatives gathered for their last annual conference, there... Read Full Article

America’s public health enemy No 1

Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st October, 2017) When Patsy Stinchfield was a young nurse practitioner three decades ago,... Read Full Article

The gap between Trump’s manufactured promises and life in Middle America

Published by UnHerd (28th September, 2017) After more than a decade working in a plant assembling circuit boards for boilers,... Read Full Article

Corbyn may have avuncular charm, but he’s no man of the people

Published by The ipaper (25th September, 2017) Jeremy Corbyn displayed his usual avuncular style ahead of his party’s annual conference.... Read Full Article

Patronising aid policy that fuels corruption

Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th September, 2017) The good news is that Westminster accepts there is a problem... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Anthony Fauci’s pardon shames America
  • 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

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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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