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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

  • 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?
  • We don’t need another review. The care system is rotting while politicians play tawdry games

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Vote blue, forget going green

Published by The i paper (29th July, 2019) There is one thing we can agree on in our divided nation:... Read Full Article

This cabinet signals the death of David Cameron’s Tory modernisation project

Published by The Guardian (26th July, 2019) When David Cameron took over as Tory leader in 2005, he inherited a party that... Read Full Article

How our first Asian MP shaped the Brexit debate

Published by UnHerd (25th July, 2019) When my generation was growing up half a century ago, we were taught the... Read Full Article

Nothing is fixed in politics, as both the Tories and their Republican cousins prove

Published by The i paper (22nd July 2019) As a Republican President spews out racist bile against four ethnic minority women Democrats,... Read Full Article

Jeremy Hunt shows the depressing state of the Conservative Party

Published by The Washington Post (17th July, 2019) British Prime Minister Theresa May is a diminished figure after three years... Read Full Article

Beware the interesting politician

Published by The i paper (1st July, 2019) Last summer I spent a few days talking to voters deep in... Read Full Article

Deeply flawed and unfit to be Prime Minister

Published by The i paper (24th June, 2019) Has there ever been such a calamitous first day to a party... Read Full Article

Tory moderates backing Boris Johnson are handing the party over to extremists

Published by New Statesman (21st June, 2019) The only good thing to have emerged so far from the depressing Conservative leadership... Read Full Article

Even after MH17, Corbyn and his circle were pro-Russia

Published by The Times (21st June, 2019) The scenes of death are etched in my memory. Bodies still strapped in... Read Full Article

The Tory tragedy may grow deeper

Published by The i paper (3rd June, 2019) Matt Hancock loves to talk about technology. He has used a little... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • 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?
  • We don’t need another review. The care system is rotting while politicians play tawdry games

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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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