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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

  • What prisons can teach us about democracy
  • In sucking up to China, Sunak and Cleverly risk looking as obsequious and naive as Cameron and Osborne
  • Prigozhin’s death exposes a weak despot
  • A glorious tale of greed
  • The grotesque deeds of this angel of death expose yet again the culture of denial, delay and secrecy that scars the NHS

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Philandering policemen, secret courts, and this insidious threat to our faith in justice

Published in The Daily Mail (November 20th, 2012) With his long hair, his sinewy body honed by daring feats of... Read Full Article

The tough-on-crime Texan judge closing down jails

Published in The Observer (September 30th, 2012) The motley gaggle of miscreants shuffles into the court, lining up silently in... Read Full Article

Could Chris Grayling be the ultimate Tory moderniser?

Published in The Independent (September 22nd, 2012) So here we go again: an apparently hardline new justice minister throwing red... Read Full Article

Don’t mock ‘hug a hoodie’. It was, and still is, the right message

Published in The Guardian (June 1st, 2012) Like so many famous political phrases, David Cameron never actually said that anyone... Read Full Article

Oddly, Texas can teach the UK a thing or two on criminal justice

Published in The Guardian (November 21st, 2011) Hang ’em high Texas is not the first place you might look for... Read Full Article

There’s a better way to break the cycle of crime

Published in the London Evening Standard (November 23rd, 2010) It was early morning when I heard muffled whispers and scuffling... Read Full Article

A whirlwind of hatred against the disabled

Published in The Guardian (October 16th, 2010) The details are sickening. For three days a gang of 18-year-olds tortured a... Read Full Article

The epidemic of hate crimes against the very vulnerable reveals a callousness at the heart of society

Published in the Daily Mail (September 22nd, 2010) David Askew was a kind and trusting man who just wanted to... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • What prisons can teach us about democracy
  • In sucking up to China, Sunak and Cleverly risk looking as obsequious and naive as Cameron and Osborne
  • Prigozhin’s death exposes a weak despot
  • A glorious tale of greed
  • The grotesque deeds of this angel of death expose yet again the culture of denial, delay and secrecy that scars the NHS

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 Isis Labour LibDems Libya May Miliband MoS NHS Nigeria Observer Putin Russia Rwanda social care Syria Times Trump Ukip Ukraine UN UnHerd USA

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