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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

  • 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
  • Jimmy Carter’s selfless work for the poor and sick after he left office serves as a stinging rebuke to the venality of Blair and Cameron

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Breaking Bad in North Korea

Published in the Mail on Sunday (September 22nd, 2013) A small army of women, identical in long yellow dresses and... Read Full Article

Open our borders to Syria’s refugees

Published in The Independent (September 12th, 2013) Azad Sino fled with his wife and two children from the Syrian city... Read Full Article

We must end this UN ‘paralysis’ over Syria

Published in The Guardian (September 9th, 2013) One thing was clear from the diplomatic disaster of the G20 summit in... Read Full Article

We wring our hands as poison spreads

Published in The Mail on Sunday (August 25th, 2013) More than 100,000 Syrians lie dead. One-fifth of a 22 million population... Read Full Article

A coup, contortions and a confused foreign policy

Published in The Independent on Sunday (August 18th, 2013) As rivers of blood flowed in Egypt this week, the frightening... Read Full Article

Revealed: The schoolboy who sparked the Syrian revolution

Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 28th, 2013) It was a typical day for the teenagers, with school followed... Read Full Article

The British professor fighting to save Africa’s elephants

Published in The Mail on Sunday (March 24th, 2013) As we set off from our overnight camp in the jungle,... Read Full Article

Inside Syria’s cauldron of despair

Published in The Mail on Sunday (March 10th, 2013) As she sat inside a huge hangar, Nagham recalled the moment... Read Full Article

In Haiti the UN’s behaviour is far cry from being conscience of the world

Publish in The Guardian (March 4th, 2013) Imagine if a multinational company went to one of the world’s most impoverished... Read Full Article

Natural disaster, man-made hell

Published in The World Today (February 8th, 2013) The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save... Read Full Article

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Recent Articles

  • 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
  • Jimmy Carter’s selfless work for the poor and sick after he left office serves as a stinging rebuke to the venality of Blair and Cameron

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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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