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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

  • 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
  • Jimmy Carter’s selfless work for the poor and sick after he left office serves as a stinging rebuke to the venality of Blair and Cameron

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What is the point of Tories posing as Ukip Lite?

Published in The Independent (March 2nd, 2013) Eastleigh was a humiliation for the Tories. It was so disastrous that party... Read Full Article

Cover-up: the public are sickened by such cynicism

Published in The Daily Mail (February 22nd, 2013) Julie Bailey is a heroine of our age. She is the cafe... Read Full Article

Legalising drugs would be the perfect Tory policy

Published in The Guardian (February 19th, 2013) A few weeks ago I had a coffee with one of the most... Read Full Article

Why does no-one ever take the blame any more?

Published in The Daily Mail (February 13th, 2013) When Nick Clegg dropped into Hampshire to boost his party’s campaign in... Read Full Article

Save lives Mr Cameron, but don’t imagine you need to save Africa

Published in The Independent (February 2nd, 2013) This week, the Prime Minister went to Africa.Struggling to achieve anything at home... Read Full Article

The real meaning of the PM’s speech on Europe

Published on ConservativeHome (January 23rd, 2013) This is my annotated take on David Cameron’s keynote speech on Europe, given after... Read Full Article

The man who turned amorality into an art form

Published in The Daily Mail (January 12th, 2013) When Tony Blair visited Beijing a few weeks ago to open a... Read Full Article

One step forward on probation, then one giant step back on jails

Published in The Guardian (January 11th, 2013) According to the latest figures there are 83,632 locked up in English and... Read Full Article

Churches’ hostility to gay marriage only underlines their impotence

Published in The Independent (December 28th, 2012) Like millions of other Roman Catholics, Ruth Hunt attended mass on Christmas Day. She... Read Full Article

Confront the pessimistic protest politics of UKIP

Published in the London Evening Standard (December 19th, 2012) Nick Clegg has made a lot of noise this week, celebrating... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • 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
  • Jimmy Carter’s selfless work for the poor and sick after he left office serves as a stinging rebuke to the venality of Blair and Cameron

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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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