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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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When localism confronts Bonapartism

Published by The Guardian (4th July, 2014) A whiteboard in the corner of Jeremy Hunt’s Whitehall office symbolises a struggle... Read Full Article

Another stupid salvo in Britain’s idiotic war on drugs

Published by The Guardian (26th June, 2014) Khat has been legally imported into this country for 60 years, a mild... Read Full Article

Don’t blame foreign players for England’s early exit

Published by The Independent on Sunday (22nd June, 2014) So, we must suffer for another four years: the World Cup... Read Full Article

The NHS must evolve – or face a painful death

Published by The Guardian (2nd June, 2014) Politicians have a poor record of fighting the wars of the past rather... Read Full Article

High time to end this immoral drugs war

Published by The Independent (30th April, 2014) It is 43 years since Richard Nixon, in need of a public enemy... Read Full Article

How legal highs could be brought down to Earth

Published by The Guardian (26th April, 2014) Just down the road from my house are shops that demonstrate the absurdity... Read Full Article

A cheer for Nick Clegg – he is talking about drugs

Published in The Independent (February 10th, 2014) Hooray! Give Nick Clegg a cheer – at last we have a prominent... Read Full Article

The joke’s not on Nigel Farage. It’s on the rest of us

Published in The Guardian (January 29th, 2014) It has been a bad few days for Ukip. First, one of the... Read Full Article

Why battle to save sickly shops on the high street when we need homes?

Published in The Guardian (17th January, 2014) It has become a January ritual: the nation’s retailers reporting one after another... Read Full Article

The tide is turning against homophobia

Published in The Guardian (December 27th, 2013) In Uganda, two people who have sex could end up serving life sentences... 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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