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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

  • Anthony Fauci’s pardon shames America
  • We must listen to angry young men
  • 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

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Pope’s humanity puts others to shame

Published by The iPaper (17th April, 2016) Hasan and Nour Essa are both engineers, who fled their besieged, bombed and... Read Full Article

The hate crime that leads to silence

Published by The i paper and The Independent (4th April, 2016) It was a shocking crime. Two soldiers, out for... Read Full Article

The sugar tax: the sweet start to a bitter struggle

Published by The i paper & The Independent (25th March, 2016) It feels a long time since last week’s controversial... Read Full Article

Targeting disabled people is woeful politics

Published by The Daily Telegraph (18th March, 2016) Sometimes you can only shake your head at the sheer stupidity of... Read Full Article

A new tax to save a struggling health system

Published by The i Paper & The Independent (29th February, 2016) I am not a fan of Sir David Nicholson,... Read Full Article

The spread of fat cats in the public sector

Published by The i Paper & The Independent (15th February, 2016) Birmingham University was one of the losers in the... Read Full Article

To get really tough on crime, we must help prisoners

Published by The i Paper & The Independent (8th February, 2016) For many years ministers privately complained that even the... Read Full Article

It’s easy to talk a good game on immigration

Published by The i Paper & The Independent (1st February, 2016) There is sometimes a single moment when talented young... Read Full Article

Time to face the truth about immigration

Published by The i Paper & The Independent (January 18th, 2016) The mood across Europe is hardening as desperate people... Read Full Article

We need to wake up to the NHS crisis

Published by The Independent (3rd January, 2016) There is one thing everyone can agree on: the last thing our nation... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Anthony Fauci’s pardon shames America
  • We must listen to angry young men
  • 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

Tags

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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