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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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Dreams, despair and dictators

Published by The Observer (24th August, 2015) Shifting Sands: The Unravelling of the Old Order in the Middle East (Profile)... Read Full Article

Britain should beware sliding back into Middle Eastern war

Published by The Independent (20th July, 2015) Slowly but surely, Britain is being dragged back into wider military intervention in... Read Full Article

The deepening dilemma over hostages

Published by The Independent (September 15th, 2014) The fact that it was almost expected does not make it any less... Read Full Article

A sick British hostage and torture by Taser

Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th September, 2014) The British aid worker threatened with beheading by Islamic militants in... Read Full Article

Boasts and brutality of British jihadists

Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th August, 2014) British jihadis involved in the brutal beheading of American reporter James... Read Full Article

Slaughter after ultimatum exposed by MoS

Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th August, 2014) Islamic State militants have massacred most of the men living in... Read Full Article

James Foley’s brutal death shows the west can’t solve the Iraq crisis

Published by The Guardian (21st August, 2014) The murder of James Foley is sickening. As his grieving parents said, this courageous man... Read Full Article

Please let American jets bomb my prison

Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th August, 2014) The call came in the early hours, the voice muffled, furtive... Read Full Article

Descent into apocalypse

Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th August, 2014) They arrived bristling with heavy weapons and waving black flags from... Read Full Article

Tony Blair has moved beyond parody

Published by The Independent (16th June, 2014) Please forgive me. I know we should ignore his latest attention-seeking outburst, like... 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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