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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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  • ‘Is it a holiday?’ the children asked when they weren’t woken up for school. ‘No, dears,’ mum replied. ‘The war has started…’
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  • ‘It’s awful to think people who survived WWII in their youth have fallen victim in old age to the insanity of a mad man’
  • The West must punish this thug as he rips apart another nation
  • Amid fog of this weird war, a day to honour the dead

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