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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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Britain’s refusal to save migrants is an act of inhumanity

Published by The Guardian (29th October 2014) Last year a wealthy couple called Regina and Christopher Catrambone were cruising the... Read Full Article

Ched Evans has been punished. Let him return to his job

Published by The Guardian (17th October, 2014) Let us start with the most important fact. Ched Evans is a rapist, a... Read Full Article

Britain needs a party that proudly champions cosmopolitan values

Published by The Financial Times (17th October, 2014) These are strange times. An insurgent political party has won a single... Read Full Article

A Conservative split may be the catharsis the party needs

Published by The Guardian (1st October, 2014) The room was packed in anticipation of good debate. But from the start... Read Full Article

Bonfire of the ebola victims

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th September, 2014) As I walked into the walled Hindu-style cremation site outside Monrovia... Read Full Article

We must tax sugar before Britain eats itself to death

Published by The Daily Mail (19th September, 2014) Mr Cube played a big role in my childhood. Not only did... Read Full Article

South Africa’s obesity crisis: the shape of things to come?

Published by Mosaic Science (9th September, 2014) When the first McDonald’s restaurant opened almost two decades ago in Johannesburg, a... Read Full Article

Arrogant doctors and a sinister abuse of power

Published by The Daily Mail (2nd September, 2014) Ashya King’s parents are not murderers, terrorists or vicious thieves. They are... Read Full Article

Our medical advances have outstripped our humanity

Published by The Guardian (8th August, 2014) I can still remember each second of that day just before Christmas when... Read Full Article

Time to tackle the misery of mental illness

Published by The Observer (27th July, 2014) Thrive: The Power of Evidence-based Psychological Therapies by Richard Layard and David M... 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

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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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