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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

  • 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
  • Why isn’t China a pariah state?
  • We don’t need another review. The care system is rotting while politicians play tawdry games

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The world must investigate all the mounting evidence Covid could have leaked from a Wuhan laboratory

Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd January, 2021) It is a year since the world learned of a deadly... Read Full Article

Just how low can China go?

Published by The Daily Mail (29th December, 2020) When a new disease erupted one year ago in Wuhan, a group... Read Full Article

Will we ever learn the truth about China and the pandemic?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th December, 2020) Explosive emails from a group of top-level scientists and Government doctors... Read Full Article

Is China hiding the truth about Covid?

Published by The i paper (7th December, 2020) Suddenly we can look forward to the future with some flickers of... Read Full Article

Sickening aid bungs to China’s repellent dictators must end

Published by The Daily Mail (25th November, 2020) You have probably never heard of Zhou Qiang but he is one... Read Full Article

Stoking divisions to the end

Published by The i paper (16th November, 2020) The crowd charged down the street. Then there were shouts, scuffles and... Read Full Article

Has America changed its mind about drugs?

Published by UnHerd (12th November, 2020) If there is one thing that pretty much everyone in the United States can... Read Full Article

The trauma of Trump is over

Published by The i paper (9th November, 2020) For a brief moment, it felt like another country. First came a... Read Full Article

The war is not over

Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th November, 2020) The mood outside the Philadelphia counting centre was ebullient, with balloons,... Read Full Article

The casual corrosion of democracy

Published by UnHerd ((5th November, 2020) Shortly before 10pm yesterday, I was wandering along the boarded up streets of Washington... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • 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
  • Why isn’t China a pariah state?
  • We don’t need another review. The care system is rotting while politicians play tawdry games

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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