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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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Haiti earthquake survivors told: if you want aid, pay or sleep with us

Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th March, 2018) A British-funded charity supported by Meghan Markle has admitted its workers traded... Read Full Article

As our narrative on Africa shrinks, the continent rises

Published by The i paper (15th January, 2018) For a brief moment Donald Trump sounded presidential on Friday as he... Read Full Article

Chimps for chumps: inside the cruel world of ape smuggling

Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th January, 2018) The crate flown in from Istanbul was filled with exotic creatures... Read Full Article

And a hippy new year….

Published by The i paper (1st January, 2018) The first time I went to the United States was in 1983... Read Full Article

Blood-soaked Baltimore becomes murder central

Published by The Mail on Sunday (31st December, 2017) Erricka Bridgeford first saw someone shot dead when she was 12... Read Full Article

Inside the real Santa’s grotto

Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th December, 2017) The ancient Byzantine church sits behind a scruffy shopping square in... Read Full Article

The Assad files

Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd December, 2017) The room looks harmless enough, with dull grey shelves and stacks... Read Full Article

Escape from the Isis hell

Published by The Times (18th November, 2017) ‘The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic... Read Full Article

America’s public health enemy No 1

Published by The Mail on Sunday (1st October, 2017) When Patsy Stinchfield was a young nurse practitioner three decades ago,... Read Full Article

The gap between Trump’s manufactured promises and life in Middle America

Published by UnHerd (28th September, 2017) After more than a decade working in a plant assembling circuit boards for boilers,... 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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