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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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Exposed: China’s 18 concentration camps

Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st November, 2021) As he strolled along the street in the Chinese city of Urumqi,... Read Full Article

Confessions of a Chinese torturer

Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th October, 2021) As we sat in the cafe of a smart hotel, the... Read Full Article

Leading US scientist: I was told about the Wuhan outbreak two weeks before Beijing warned the world

Published by The Mail on Sunday (5th September, 2021) One of the world’s top epidemiologists admits he first heard about... Read Full Article

China lashes out at US over ‘fake news’ ahead of key report into COVID origins

Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd August, 2021) The Chinese government has stepped up its aggressive resistance against efforts... Read Full Article

The Batwoman dossier

Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th August, 2021) Slowly but surely, the narrative on the origins of the pandemic... Read Full Article

China pushed to open up labs as Covid leak theory gains support

Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th August, 2021) China is coming under pressure to share data and open up... Read Full Article

China should not veto a pandemic origins inquiry

Published by The i paper (26th July, 2021) Just imagine if a strange new virus emerged suddenly in Salisbury, with... Read Full Article

China’s first virus cover-up

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th July, 2021) Towards the end of 2002, several chefs and animal traders in... Read Full Article

Orwellian repression is stamping out the last flickers of freedom in Hong Kong

Published by The Daily Mail (24th June, 2021) When Jimmy Lai was a child, he worked as a porter carrying... Read Full Article

China’s Communists cannot gloss over their history

Published by The i paper (7th June, 2021) President Xi Jinping has declared that he wants to rebrand China as... 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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