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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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  • 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 needs a party that proudly champions cosmopolitan values

Published by The Financial Times (17th October, 2014) These are strange times. An insurgent political party has won a single... Read Full Article

We’re heading for a crisis whoever wins the election

Published by The Independent (6th October, 2014) There is something absurd about the Liberal Democrat conference, with all those attacks on... Read Full Article

A Conservative split may be the catharsis the party needs

Published by The Guardian (1st October, 2014) The room was packed in anticipation of good debate. But from the start... Read Full Article

Last-minute deals turn the spotlight on Westminster

Published by The Financial Times (19th September, 2014) So the most thrilling political debate in recent British history is over,... Read Full Article

Passions run high with only 100 hours until polling starts

Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th September, 2014) As the autumn sun shone down and the ear-splitting sounds of... Read Full Article

Sending in Boris is the only solution

Published by The Sun (29th August, 2014) Tory chiefs sent out an invitation to donors yesterday morning asking them to... Read Full Article

Look to France for a vision of life under Miliband

Published by The Guardian (27th August, 2014) History never tires of repeating itself. More than three decades ago Socialists won... Read Full Article

There is an alternative to murky donations from the super-rich

Published by The Guardian (26th July, 2014) The funding of political parties has long been a weeping sore in the... Read Full Article

When localism confronts Bonapartism

Published by The Guardian (4th July, 2014) A whiteboard in the corner of Jeremy Hunt’s Whitehall office symbolises a struggle... Read Full Article

Farage and the fruitcakes

Published by The Observer (29th June, 2014) Protest Vote: How Politicians Lost the Plot (Gibson Square) Ten years ago, Tim... 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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