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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

  • 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
  • The tragedy of Joe Biden: he betrayed democracy
  • A woman of heroic strength and dignity

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Symbols of the hostile environment

Published by The i paper (7th September, 2020) Clapton Girls’ Academy has a motto to inspire pupils in one of... Read Full Article

We owe it to asylum seekers to help them

Published by The i paper (31st August, 2020) Hala has known nothing but conflict and chaos all her life. She... Read Full Article

Britain doesn’t care about social care

Published by UnHerd (22nd April, 2020) There are not many things to celebrate in these dark days of pandemic, but... Read Full Article

Ankara plays pass the asylum-seeker

Published by The i paper (9th March 2020) The scenes of squalor and stories of despair had a sordid sense... Read Full Article

Greek police beat us, stole our money, phones, even our shoes. Then they dumped us back in Turkey

Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th March, 2020) Having fled one of Syria’s many bloodstained battlegrounds, Muhammad spent years struggling... Read Full Article

Lorry deaths expose our shameful hypocrisy on migration

Published by The i paper (28th October, 2019) The young faces stare out of newspaper pages. Bui Thi Nhung, just 19... Read Full Article

Orban’s brand of populism blinds him to reality

Published by The Times (14th May, 2019) Viktor Orban, Hungary’s pugnacious prime minister, created the template for the populism sweeping... Read Full Article

Britain’s refusal to take Yazidi victims of genocide flies in face of May’s talk on modern slavery

Published by The ipaper (18th March, 2019) Five years ago I was reporting from Iraq when I wrote about Kocho,... Read Full Article

Europe’s Alcatraz: why the continent’s most liberal nation plans to dump refugees on a remote island

Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th February, 2019) The rain lashed down and wind blew in fiercely over icy... Read Full Article

Ethiopia is right to liberate refugees from hellish camps

Published by The Times (22nd January, 2019) More than 25 million people are refugees, forced to flee their homelands by... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • 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
  • The tragedy of Joe Biden: he betrayed democracy
  • A woman of heroic strength and dignity

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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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