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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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Britain’s cruel care system shames us all

Published by The Times (19th April, 2019) The details are shocking. A troubled girl just 14 years old, sent for... Read Full Article

‘It was pure torture’: autistic boy locked up, had head flushed down a toilet and punched so hard his jaw was broken in state care

Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th April, 2019) When Ben Garrod turned 18, he was preparing to move from... Read Full Article

My autistic child was kidnaped by social workers

Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th March, 2019) It was a cold day in February five years ago when... Read Full Article

How can we ignore this cruelty?

Published by The i paper (11th March, 2019) The abuse, the bullying, the cruelty were simply grotesque. One person is... Read Full Article

The doctor stitching up Syria’s wounded

Published by The Times (2nd March, 2019) War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott (Picador) David Nott was... Read Full Article

Sophie had autism. So why did her life end in a special unit for mentally ill people?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd February, 2019) Ben and Nickie Bennett had just finished dinner at home on... Read Full Article

Five new secure units for autistic patients set to open despite pledge to close them

Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd February, 2019) A private health company is opening five secure units to lock... Read Full Article

Can we be trusted with euthanasia?

Published by UnHerd (1st February, 2019) It is largely accepted in the modern democratic world that people have the right... Read Full Article

Teenager sent to health unit for six-week autism check-up when aged 18 left caged with killers 13 years later

Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th January, 2019) When Kyle Gibbon left school, the local authority suggested the 18-year-old... Read Full Article

Let them all out now

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th January, 2019) A mental health nurse has revealed she saw staff in a... 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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