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Ian Birrell

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Canada / Politics / United States

Trump is shattering the political right

Published by The i paper (31st March, 2025) There is not much to celebrate looking around the world today, seeing the continuing bloodshed in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan through […]

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Technology

Tech giants need to be held accountable

Published by The i paper (23rd February, 2021) Earlier this month I wrote an article for UnHerd in response to the World Health Organisation trip to Wuhan in search […]

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China / Covid19 / World

How China is exploiting pandemic panic

Published by UnHerd (30th April, 2020) Who could argue with this statement on coronavirus made by Australia’s prime minister, Scott Morrison, as pandemic rampages around the planet? ‘This […]

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Europe / Ukraine

With the remains of 200 victims, the train of death finally moves out

Published by The Daily Mail (22nd July, 2014) The freight train filled with its grisly cargo of death last night finally pulled out of the station where it […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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