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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

  • The debate raging across Ukraine: Are Christmas trees a waste of power or a joyful rebuke to Putin?
  • How these heroes (and your donations) are clearing Ukraine of killer booby traps
  • War is no excuse for poor service
  • Brexit revolution devours its children
  • How Covid revolt swept across China

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It will take more than a dollop of cash to save shattered social care

Published by The i paper (6th September, 2021) First the good news. There seems to be universal recognition that our... Read Full Article

Our troops are doing their best. But Kabul shows how impotent we are without America

Published by The Daily Mail (25th August, 2021) There are few institutions that can still unite our nation in uncritical... Read Full Article

How migrants are being used as weapons

Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th August, 2021) The pandemic has crushed the global tourism industry, with thousands of flights... Read Full Article

Britain’s criminal approach to drugs

Published by UnHerd (30th July, 2021) Our nation’s politicians have long been guilty of an inflated sense of exceptionalism. But... Read Full Article

A bloody disgrace

Published by The Daily Mail (July 29th, 2021) The Ken Clarke brand of politics — his straight-talking and dis-hevelled style... Read Full Article

China’s first virus cover-up

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th July, 2021) Towards the end of 2002, several chefs and animal traders in... Read Full Article

Did scientists stifle the lab-leak theory?

Published by UnHerd (22nd July, 2021) In September 2019, even as a new respiratory virus may have started circulating in... Read Full Article

Winners, on and off the pitch

Published by The i paper (5th July, 2021) One by one, the institutions that bind our country stumbled. We saw... Read Full Article

What’s killing New Orleans?

Published by UnHerd (5th July, 2021) Portia Pollock was 60 years old when she was murdered outside her home. She... Read Full Article

World’s most famous medical journal is accused of doing China’s dirty work – by denouncing the Covid lab leak theory as a conspiracy

Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th June, 2012) Earlier this year, the prominent German psychiatrist Thomas Schulze sent a... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • The debate raging across Ukraine: Are Christmas trees a waste of power or a joyful rebuke to Putin?
  • How these heroes (and your donations) are clearing Ukraine of killer booby traps
  • War is no excuse for poor service
  • Brexit revolution devours its children
  • How Covid revolt swept across China

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aid autism Blair Boris Brexit Cameron China coalition Conservatives Corbyn coronavirus crime Daily Mail democracy Dfid Disability drugs Ethiopia EU Guardian human rights immigration Independent ipaper Isis Labour LibDems Libya May Miliband MoS NHS Nigeria Observer Putin Russia social care Syria Times Trump Ukip Ukraine UN UnHerd USA

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