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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

  • I’ve seen the fragility of our way of life, how precious is peace and the need for constant vigilance against tyranny
  • Town of the Damned
  • World’s most infamous mercenary steps out the shadows
  • Slaughter of the conscripts
  • How to fix the NHS and social care

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Our troops are doing their best. But Kabul shows how impotent we are without America

Published by The Daily Mail (25th August, 2021) There are few institutions that can still unite our nation in uncritical... Read Full Article

Blair’s hypocrisy remains unmitigated

Published by The i paper (23rd August, 2021) Ten years ago, I stood in the ransacked residence of the British... Read Full Article

Fleeced: How aid billions were squandered in Afghanistan

Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd August, 2021) If you want to understand the horrifying return to power of... Read Full Article

Our folly and failure in Afghanistan

Published by The i paper (16th August, 2021) The humiliating retreat from Afghanistan has turned into a horror show, the... Read Full Article

The sickening hypocrisy of Bush, Blair and the war on terror

Published by The i paper (9th August, 2021) Twenty years after lethal attacks turned aircraft into weapons and sparked the... Read Full Article

High salaries, bonuses and suspect cash withdrawals

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th December, 2016) It all sounds so positive on Adam Smith International’s website: an... Read Full Article

Message written in blood shows weakness of Taliban

Published by The Daily Mail (16th December, 2014) At first staff thought it was just children playing a boisterous game,... Read Full Article

Save lives Mr Cameron, but don’t imagine you need to save Africa

Published in The Independent (February 2nd, 2013) This week, the Prime Minister went to Africa.Struggling to achieve anything at home... Read Full Article

The day that shook the world

Published in The Observer (September 11th, 2011) The Eleventh Day by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (Doubleday); The 9/11 Wars... Read Full Article

It’s a fiasco, says our man in Kabul

Published in the Daily Mail (July 1st, 2011) Cables from Kabul: The Inside story of the West’s Afghanistan campaign by... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • I’ve seen the fragility of our way of life, how precious is peace and the need for constant vigilance against tyranny
  • Town of the Damned
  • World’s most infamous mercenary steps out the shadows
  • Slaughter of the conscripts
  • How to fix the NHS and social care

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aid autism Blair Boris Brexit Cameron China coalition Conservatives Corbyn coronavirus crime Daily Mail democracy Dfid Disability drugs Ethiopia EU Guardian human rights immigration Independent ipaper Isis Labour LibDems Libya May Miliband MoS NHS Nigeria Observer Putin Russia social care Syria Times Trump Ukip Ukraine UN UnHerd USA

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