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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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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

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th July, 2021) Towards the end of 2002, several chefs and animal traders in... Read Full Article

15 years in a slave labour camp – just for listening to pop music in North Korea

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th July, 2021) Three years ago, North Korea’s ‘Supreme Leader’ Kim Jong Un clapped along... Read Full Article

What’s killing New Orleans?

Published by UnHerd (5th July, 2021) Portia Pollock was 60 years old when she was murdered outside her home. She... Read Full Article

Orwellian repression is stamping out the last flickers of freedom in Hong Kong

Published by The Daily Mail (24th June, 2021) When Jimmy Lai was a child, he worked as a porter carrying... Read Full Article

An addiction catastrophe

Published by The Spectator (12th June, 2021) Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Picador) Last week... Read Full Article

China’s Communists cannot gloss over their history

Published by The i paper (7th June, 2021) President Xi Jinping has declared that he wants to rebrand China as... Read Full Article

Rocket Man vs the Earthlings

Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th June, 2021) There cannot be many more idyllic spots for those seeking the... 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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