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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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  • The West must punish this thug as he rips apart another nation
  • Amid fog of this weird war, a day to honour the dead

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Our troops are doing their best. But Kabul shows how impotent we are without America

Published by The Daily Mail (25th August, 2021) There are few institutions that can still unite our nation in uncritical... Read Full Article

Blair’s hypocrisy remains unmitigated

Published by The i paper (23rd August, 2021) Ten years ago, I stood in the ransacked residence of the British... 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

Fleeced: How aid billions were squandered in Afghanistan

Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd August, 2021) If you want to understand the horrifying return to power of... Read Full Article

Our folly and failure in Afghanistan

Published by The i paper (16th August, 2021) The humiliating retreat from Afghanistan has turned into a horror show, the... 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

The sickening hypocrisy of Bush, Blair and the war on terror

Published by The i paper (9th August, 2021) Twenty years after lethal attacks turned aircraft into weapons and sparked the... 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

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Recent Articles

  • ‘Is it a holiday?’ the children asked when they weren’t woken up for school. ‘No, dears,’ mum replied. ‘The war has started…’
  • People’s army that is stepping up for the fight
  • ‘It’s awful to think people who survived WWII in their youth have fallen victim in old age to the insanity of a mad man’
  • The West must punish this thug as he rips apart another nation
  • Amid fog of this weird war, a day to honour the dead

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