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Africa / Europe / France / Mali

Why Mali was attacked

Published by CapX (20th November, 2015) & The Independent (21st November, 2015) So here we go again. First the tragic slaughter of innocents in Paris, followed by that […]

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Economics / Europe / France / Technology

Don’t just pay glib respects. Pay your taxes to protect us

Published by The Sun (20th November, 2015) It did not take long for the world’s technology giants to react when cowardly gangsters unleashed bloody carnage and terrifying chaos […]

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Europe / European Union / France / Immigration / Policy

To turn on refugees because of Paris is weak and wrong

Published by The Guardian (18th November, 2015) Should we ban white Australians from coming to Britain? After all, one misfit teenager from Melbourne became so disillusioned with western […]

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Arts / Europe / France / Music

Cut down doing the job he loved

Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th November, 2015) It is hard to think of anyone further removed from the fanaticism and hatred of Islamist killers than Nick […]

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Economics

Globalisation is good. Ask a carmaker

Published by The Guardian (3rd February, 2015) The resurgence of the British motor industry  is among the most remarkable economic stories of recent times. It boomed after the […]

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Europe / France / Politics

Look to France for a vision of life under Miliband

Published by The Guardian (27th August, 2014) History never tires of repeating itself. More than three decades ago Socialists won power in France with promises to revive the […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Don’t fall for Putin’s lie

Published by The Guardian (1st April, 2014) Vladimir Putin has won plaudits at home and brushed aside censure abroad with his brazen theft of Crimea. His few supporters […]

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Policy / Race

The grim history of the Roma is no fairy tale

Published in The Independent on Sunday (October 27th, 2013) It was like a doom-laden fairy tale from the Dark Ages. A sweet little girl, instantly dubbed the blonde […]

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Europe / Politics / Russia / Syria / World

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 St Petersburg: western leaders are fed up with what […]

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Politics / Syria / World

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 has been displaced. Yet even a few months […]

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Africa / Europe / France / Mali

How the West misread Mali

Published in The Guardian (January 25th, 2013) For 10 months the collapse was largely ignored by the west. A country seen as a model democracy imploded, with an army […]

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Africa / Arts / Mali / Music

Musicians of Mali fight for their nation’s soul

Published in The Independent on Sunday (January 20th, 2013) The image of Mali has long been a gentle one. It is a land of magical music and mouth-watering […]

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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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