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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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Why do we subsidise firms that keep workers in poverty?

Published in The Independent (April 16th, 2013) Commodity trading seems to attract those characters who feel property dealing too ensnared... Read Full Article

Frightened by foreign bodies

Published in The Observer (14th April, 2013) The British Dream by David Goodhart (Atlantic); The Diversity Illusion by Ed West... Read Full Article

The mutinous anger of Labour voters over welfare

Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 7th, 2013) Let me introduce you to two women I met on Friday.... Read Full Article

All we can agree on is that welfare’s in a state

Published in The Independent (April 2nd, 2013) What a strange world we live in. A clutch of Church leaders spent their... Read Full Article

The man they couldn’t hang

Published in The Independent on Sunday (31st March, 2013) When the National Health Service rose like a merciful phoenix from... Read Full Article

The immigration debate: evidence-free and more rancid than ever

Published in The Guardian (26th March, 2013) Nigel Farage must have been smiling to himself as he supped his pint of... Read Full Article

The British professor fighting to save Africa’s elephants

Published in The Mail on Sunday (March 24th, 2013) As we set off from our overnight camp in the jungle,... Read Full Article

Overseas aid: an indefensible ringfence

Published in The Guardian (March 14th, 2013) One of the first rules of opposition is to avoid rash promises that... Read Full Article

Cover-up: the public are sickened by such cynicism

Published in The Daily Mail (February 22nd, 2013) Julie Bailey is a heroine of our age. She is the cafe... Read Full Article

Legalising drugs would be the perfect Tory policy

Published in The Guardian (February 19th, 2013) A few weeks ago I had a coffee with one of the most... 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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