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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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NHS rewards bosses after 1,200 ‘excess’ deaths at scandal-hit hospitals

Published in The Mail on Sunday (May 1st, 2011) Julie Bailey is still haunted by the death of her mother,... Read Full Article

The NHS is ripe for revolution

Published in The Observer (February 6th, 2011) It was just a small thing, but telling none the less. My son... Read Full Article

2,000 dead and still no justice for the victims of Britain’s blood transfusion scandal

Published in the Daily Mail (October 18th, 2010) A few months after his birth, Colin developed a bruise on his... Read Full Article

It is patients who will end up losing out

Published in The Independent (November 13th, 2009) Nurses are the lifeblood of the health service. Without good people on the... Read Full Article

The health service needs whistleblowers

Published in The Independent (September 9th, 2009) Soon after Alan Milburn became Health minister in 1997, he wrote to employers... Read Full Article

The NHS is flawed. Here’s the evidence…

Published in The Independent (August 28th, 2009) It was the most painful of the emails that I’ve received over the... Read Full Article

Why I don’t believe that the NHS is sacrosanct

Published in The Independent (August 21st, 2009) It was a simple thing. Another blood test, some more investigations into whatever... Read Full Article

The hell I share with David Cameron

Published in The Spectator (October 22nd, 2005) My daughter suffered two seizures the other night. One was shortly after midnight,... Read Full Article

Set us free to pay

Published in The Spectator (May 11th, 2002) During the phoney war before the last general election I attended a lunch... 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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