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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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  • 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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Lives on the edge

Published in The Observer (August 26th, 2013) No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies & Travellers... Read Full Article

Forget the nostalgia for British Rail – our trains are better than ever

Published in The Guardian (August 16th, 2013) There is a weary predictability to the political choreography. Once again, it’s revealed,... Read Full Article

Britain’s pathetic response to the rise of a global power

Published in The Guardian (August 9th, 2013) Despite their military name, it is hard to see how an eight-strong delegation... Read Full Article

Victims of the war on drugs

Published in The Guardian (July 27th, 2013) In Swindon a young man lies in hospital critically ill after taking a... Read Full Article

The civil service: a monster in Whitehall

Published in The Guardian (July 16th, 2013) Britain has a bad habit of deluding itself over its institutions. We proclaim... Read Full Article

Worshipping the NHS costs lives

Published in The Independent on Sunday (23rd June, 2013) Imagine if an airline crashed 10 planes each year, killing 3,000... Read Full Article

The NHS is killing disabled people

Published in The Guardian (May 22nd, 2013) My daughter was ill at the weekend. Just a heavy cold; but when... Read Full Article

A Queen’s speech ruined by absurd anti-immigration measures

Published in The Guardian (May 8th, 2013) There is something reassuringly Ruritanian about the rituals associated with the Queen’s speech,... Read Full Article

A helpline in crisis and doctors who refuse to put patients’ interests above their own

Published in The Daily Mail (May 6th, 2013) For weeks there have been many stories emerging of patients left hanging... Read Full Article

Christians, Muslims and the reality of religious persecution

Published in The Guardian (April 22nd, 2013) It is hard not to laugh. Three Christians are taking a landmark legal... 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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