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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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  • 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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Rethink foreign aid, Mrs May

Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd April, 2017) Aid for despots and dictators. Aid for rich nations with their... Read Full Article

How rich: Gates lecturing other people on taxes

Published by The Daily Mail (21st April, 2017) Scarcely had the starting gun for Britain’s election battle been fired when technology... Read Full Article

North Korea’s idea of Britain? David Beckham and The Queen

Published by The Spectator (20 April, 2017) Korean Notebook When I arrived in Seoul, I joked to my editor that... Read Full Article

The real drug zombies are politicians

Published by The ipaper (17th April, 2017) Reefer madness is back. Only this time, it has been rebranded. Now it... Read Full Article

I fear for the future when the world’s fate hangs on these two mavericks

Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th April, 2017) Outside my window in one of the world’s most advanced cities,... Read Full Article

Thousands slaughtered at nuclear test site

Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th April, 2017) A North Korean defector claims thousands of political prisoners have been... Read Full Article

Revealed: Kim’s plan to kidnap tourists

Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th April, 2017) North Korea has been secretly training elite special forces to kidnap... Read Full Article

A president guided by television news and emotional whims

Published by The ipaper (10th April, 2017) Even in the whirlwind world of Donald Trump, last week’s events were mind-blowing.... Read Full Article

So could North Korea’s cruel regime be next on the hit list?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th April, 2017) When Donald Trump sat down to dinner with China’s Xi Jinping in... Read Full Article

Donald Trump’s shock tactics on North Korea might just work

Published by The Guardian (3rd April, 2017) Song Byeok used to paint propaganda pictures for North Korea’s dictators. But when... 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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