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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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Wedding guests whose presence shames the nation

Published in The Times (April 28th, 2011) Tomorrow’s royal wedding is not a state occasion, say Palace officials, just a... Read Full Article

Why Britain must try to stop the slaughter in Syria

Published in the London Evening Standard (April 27th, 2011) Libya made history last month by becoming the first nation to... Read Full Article

Inside Syria: Secret police tell parents of arrested protesters to forget their children and have some more

Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 17th, 2011) Khalid was not a political activist, just an ordinary middle-class man... Read Full Article

One year on, Haiti is still in the grip of despair and chaos. And the huge aid effort you funded is to blame

Published in the Daily Mail (January 13th, 2011) The rows of tents seem to stretch on for ever, a ­symbol... Read Full Article

Mississippi yearning: driving down America’s Great River Road

Published in The Guardian (December 4th, 2010) As we nudged the Mustang on to the vast metal bridge spanning the... Read Full Article

This award is premature – and potentially very foolish

Published in The Independent (October 10th, 2009) When Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, the American... Read Full Article

Lessons from the flood

Published in The Sunday Telegraph (September 12, 2010) Five years ago, America was struggling to come to terms with the... Read Full Article

Caught in the crossfire

Published in The Spectator (July 24th, 2010) Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer (Harper Press) Maqbool Sheikh dreaded hearing a knock... Read Full Article

Throw open our doors to Haitians

Published in The Independent (January 28th, 2010) Two weeks on, and they are still pulling people from the living hell... Read Full Article

Death, disaster and a shocking reality

Published in The Independent (January 16th, 2010) Around the world, presidents and prime ministers mouth platitudes about sharing the pain... 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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