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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

  • Another death, this time a friend’s son, highlights the need for an urgent review of psychiatric services
  • Our timid tolerance for tyranny
  • Boris Johnson is rescuing his own career when helping Ukraine
  • Is this depravity intrinsic to war, to Russians – or to all humanity once its veneer of civilisation is stripped away?
  • People with disabilities abandoned in Ukraine

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Forget aid and target inequality

Published in Prospect (November 9th, 2012) Should Britain give aid to India? For a hefty majority of people in this... Read Full Article

The tough-on-crime Texan judge closing down jails

Published in The Observer (September 30th, 2012) The motley gaggle of miscreants shuffles into the court, lining up silently in... Read Full Article

Why do we care more about pandas than a Briton’s very suspicious death?

Published in The Daily Mail (April 16th, 2012) The picture speaks volumes: a damning snapshot of British impotence and Chinese... Read Full Article

Massacres, emails, and a modern Marie Antoinette

Published in the Daily Mail (March 15th, 2012) Among a stash of emails that emerged yesterday, apparently sent by the... Read Full Article

A brave reporter and her passion for speaking the truth

Published in the Daily Mail (February 23rd, 2012) The air was thick with tear gas, angry crowds confronted soldiers aiming... Read Full Article

The danger of us intervening in Syria’s bloodshed

Published in the London Evening Standard (February 13th, 2012) The scenes are unbearable. Children with their faces blown away, young... Read Full Article

Why Putin backs this vile tyrant

Published in the Daily Mail (February 6th, 2012) With each day, the Syrian tragedy grows deeper. Over the past weekend... Read Full Article

Haiti and the shaming of the aid zealots

Published in the Daily Mail (January 27th, 2011) The first thing that strikes you is the smell: a sweet, sickly... Read Full Article

Resist pessimism – keep faith with the Arab Spring

Published in the London Evening Standard (January 3rd, 2012) Just under a year ago, I travelled around Libya posing as... Read Full Article

Oddly, Texas can teach the UK a thing or two on criminal justice

Published in The Guardian (November 21st, 2011) Hang ’em high Texas is not the first place you might look for... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • Another death, this time a friend’s son, highlights the need for an urgent review of psychiatric services
  • Our timid tolerance for tyranny
  • Boris Johnson is rescuing his own career when helping Ukraine
  • Is this depravity intrinsic to war, to Russians – or to all humanity once its veneer of civilisation is stripped away?
  • People with disabilities abandoned in Ukraine

Tags

aid autism Blair Boris Brexit Cameron China coalition Conservatives Corbyn coronavirus crime Daily Mail democracy Dfid Disability drugs Ethiopia EU Guardian human rights immigration Independent ipaper Isis Labour LibDems Libya May Miliband MoS NHS Nigeria Observer Putin Russia social care Syria Times Trump Ukip Ukraine UN UnHerd USA

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