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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

  • China’s stooges expose the real Covid conspiracy
  • Schools offer a lesson on Labour’s confusion
  • Why isn’t China a pariah state?
  • We don’t need another review. The care system is rotting while politicians play tawdry games
  • Jimmy Carter’s selfless work for the poor and sick after he left office serves as a stinging rebuke to the venality of Blair and Cameron

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New evidence that Beijing hid truth about Covid origin and possible leak from Wuhan lab

Published by The Mail on Sunday (30th July, 2023) China’s public health authorities cracked the genetic code of the Covid... Read Full Article

The secret messages behind the lab leak cover-up

Published by UnHerd (28th July, 2023) “What happened to Oppenheimer damaged our ability as a society to debate honestly about... Read Full Article

Why do we kowtow to a vile dictatorship that covers up Covid’s origins, threatens Taiwan and carries out genocide?

Published by The Daily Mail (2nd May, 2023) As he flew back from the ceremonies marking the handover of Hong... Read Full Article

Tanks stand ready on beaches where barricades jut from the sands – a dispatch from Taiwan front line so close you can see China across the bay

Published by The Daily Mail (11th April, 2023) Kinmen is a holiday destination with a difference: tanks are parked by... Read Full Article

It’s official: Covid can be linked to lab leaks

Published by The i paper (6th March, 2023) You have to admit it is one hell of a coincidence. Out... Read Full Article

UN experts: Lab leak was ‘most likely’ Covid cause

Published by The Mail on Sunday (29th January, 2023) The authors of two United Nations reports into the origins of... Read Full Article

Devastated mourners forced to burn their own dead loved ones as China’s ‘zero Covid’ approach backfires

Published by The Sun (3rd January, 2023) After the man’s grandmother died from Covid, he went to a major crematorium... Read Full Article

How the sudden lifting of China’s Zero Covid plunged the country into turmoil

Published by The Daily Mail (January 2nd, 2023) The man’s note to his neighbours was polite. He stated that his... Read Full Article

How Covid revolt swept across China

Published by The Daily Mail (November 28th, 2022) The blaze broke out in a residential high-rise building in Urumqi, a... Read Full Article

Hit China’s rich and powerful with sanctions – just like the Putin oligarchs

Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th September, 2022) According to the Chinese government, the primary human right is to... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • China’s stooges expose the real Covid conspiracy
  • Schools offer a lesson on Labour’s confusion
  • Why isn’t China a pariah state?
  • We don’t need another review. The care system is rotting while politicians play tawdry games
  • Jimmy Carter’s selfless work for the poor and sick after he left office serves as a stinging rebuke to the venality of Blair and Cameron

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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