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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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Britain should beware sliding back into Middle Eastern war

Published by The Independent (20th July, 2015) Slowly but surely, Britain is being dragged back into wider military intervention in... Read Full Article

Infuriating and self-righteous, but we’d miss the BBC

Published by The Independent (13th July, 2015) Five months ago the House of Commons Culture Committee issued an important report... Read Full Article

Is Tim Farron really a liberal at all?

Published by The Guardian (25th June, 2015) It has been largely forgotten, but two of the nation’s major political parties... Read Full Article

Crime chiefs warn 750,000 British men may be attracted to children

Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st June, 2015) Up to 750,000 men living in Britain may have an interest... Read Full Article

Brothers in arms – but Bush and Blair take divergent paths now

Published by The Independent (9th June, 2015) When he left the White House in early 2009 and headed back to... Read Full Article

Why is David Cameron handing out £12bn of our money to foreign thieves, dictators and charlatans?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th June, 2015) Dear Prime Minister It is a decade since we began striving... Read Full Article

Why the Tories should take Miliband’s attack on business seriously

Published by CapX (5th June, 2015) It is still less than one month since that astonishing election result, but already... Read Full Article

The ban on legal highs is mind-bendingly stupid

Published by The Independent (1st June, 2015) Sometimes it is hard not to wonder at the stupidity of Westminster. Advanced... Read Full Article

Labour’s instant denial of its manifesto damages politics

Published by The Independent (25th May, 2015) Politics is a brutal business – and none know this better than Ed... Read Full Article

Could Michael Gove become a liberal hero by reforming prisons?

Published by The Guardian (20th May, 2015) The appointment of Michael Gove as justice secretary was among the more interesting... 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

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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