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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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Genocide of the Uighurs

Published by The i paper (20th July 2020) The footage could scarcely be more disturbing. We see several hundred detainees... Read Full Article

China’s Big Brother spy cameras are watching you

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th July, 2020) Visiting an Army base in the Dorset village of Bovington in... Read Full Article

China would kill me for revealing the truth about Covid cover-up

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th July, 2020) A Chinese scientist who fled Hong Kong says she is putting... Read Full Article

The hideous crushing of Hong Kong’s freedom is a victory for despots over democracy

Published by The Daily Mail (2nd July, 2020) The first arrest was a man clutching a black flag inscribed with... Read Full Article

China is winning the digital cold war

Published by The i paper (22nd June, 2020) The world is sliding into a new cold war. Once again, it... Read Full Article

Could Kim Jong-un’s sister become the world’s first woman dictator?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (June 21st, 2020) The language was the usual frothing mixture of aggression, bluster and... Read Full Article

The defector taking on Kim Jong-un

Published by UnHerd (19th June, 2020) It was a cloudy July night with a full moon, shortly before midnight, when... Read Full Article

These demonstrators might look like mindless thugs, but fascism can exploit divisions

Published by The i paper (15th June, 2020) Three years ago I was in Charlottesville, Virginia, which had found itself... Read Full Article

So where did Covid-19 come from?

Published by UnHerd (12th June, 2020) Last year, Yuan Zhiming published an article in the Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity confessing to... Read Full Article

New evidence of how Beijing covered up outbreak

Published by The Mail on Sunday (June 7th 2020) Fresh evidence of China’s shocking cover-up of the pandemic outbreak has been... 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

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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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