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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

  • Trump’s talk of land grabs are a gift to dictators
  • 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

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The drug 10,000 times deadlier than heroin

Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd October, 2017) Shortly after lunchtime, as drizzle fell outside at the start of... Read Full Article

The solution to overcrowded prisons? Stop locking people up

Published by The i paper (16th October, 2017) Marc Maltby was only 23 years old. Yet he has just become... Read Full Article

America’s public health enemy No 1

Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st October, 2017) When Patsy Stinchfield was a young nurse practitioner three decades ago,... Read Full Article

Cutting tuition fees would just benefit wealthy graduates

Published by The Times (19th September, 2017) The Tories have woken up suddenly to the generational divide. Bribing pensioners and... Read Full Article

The other deadly hurricane surging across America

Published by UnHerd (1st September, 2017) Last weekend I was in Houston when the hurricane hit. The winds smashed into... Read Full Article

Flawed and frustrating

Published by The Observer (30th July, 2017) Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier (Allen... Read Full Article

Land of the living dead

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th August, 2017) The black jeep had slammed into a parked saloon in a... Read Full Article

As I know myself, there can be no winners in the Charlie Gard case

Published by The Guardian (26th July, 2017) At the centre of the Charlie Gard  story, which has captured global attention,... Read Full Article

The same old mistakes in a doomed war on drugs

Published by The ipaper (16th July, 2017) The Home Office released its long-awaited new drugs strategy on Friday. Given that... Read Full Article

Human wolfpack hiding in the woods of Calais

Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd July, 2017) First there was Sangatte. Then ‘the Jungle’. Now they hide out... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Trump’s talk of land grabs are a gift to dictators
  • 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

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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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