Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
>

Ian Birrell

Columnist & Foreign Correspondent

  • Africa
    • General
    • Algeria
    • Congo
    • Egypt
    • Equatorial Guinea
    • Eritrea
    • Ethiopia
    • Gabon
    • Ghana
    • Ivory Coast
    • Kenya
    • Liberia
    • Libya
    • Mali
    • Nigeria
    • Rwanda
    • Somalia
    • Somaliland
    • South Africa
    • South Sudan
    • Sudan
    • Swaziland
    • Tanzania
    • Tunisia
    • Uganda
    • Zambia
    • Zimbabwe
  • Aid
  • Business
    • Economics
    • Technology
  • Covid19
  • Disability
  • Europe
    • European Union
    • Albania
    • Austria
    • Belarus
    • Belgium
    • Bosnia
    • Denmark
    • Estonia
    • Finland
    • France
    • Georgia
    • Germany
    • Greece
    • Greenland
    • Holland
    • Hungary
    • Iceland
    • Ireland
    • Italy
    • Lithuania
    • Moldova
    • Norway
    • Poland
    • Russia
    • Serbia
    • Slovakia
    • Spain
    • Sweden
    • Switzerland
    • Ukraine
  • Health
  • Media
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Film
    • Music
  • Politics
  • Policy
    • Crime
    • Defence
    • Drugs
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Housing
    • Immigration
    • Police
    • Race
    • Social care
    • Sport
    • Transport
    • Welfare
    • Whitehall
  • Travel
  • World
    • Afghanistan
    • Argentina
    • Bahrain
    • Canada
    • China
    • Colombia
    • Cuba
    • Haiti
    • India
    • Iran
    • Iraq
    • Israel, West Bank & Gaza
    • Jordan
    • Kashmir
    • Kazakhstan
    • Lebanon
    • Mexico
    • Montserrat
    • Nepal
    • North Korea
    • Pakistan
    • Philippines
    • Saudi Arabia
    • South Korea
    • Sri Lanka
    • Syria
    • Taiwan
    • Turkey
    • United States
    • Venezuela
Politics

Like it or not, the PM has never been stronger. He should exploit it

Published in The Independent (December 13th, 2011) When George Osborne addressed Cabinet last week, he compared the proposed deal to salvage the euro and safeguard our futures with […]

Read More
Policy / Technology / Whitehall

It’s only your money going down the drain

Published in the Daily Mail (September 24th) The scandal is a parable for all that is wrong with government: a tale of such colossal arrogance, incompetence and waste […]

Read More
Africa / Libya

How Labour secretly put Libyan dissidents under house arrest at Gaddafi’s behest following Blair’s ‘deal in the desert’

Published in The Mail on Sunday (September 11th, 2011) Labour used controversial control orders to put Libyan dissidents in Britain under house arrest – at the behest of […]

Read More
Africa / Libya

Devastating secret files reveal Labour lies over Gaddafi

Published in The Mail on Sunday (September 4th, 2011) The startling extent to which Labour misled the world over the controversial release of the Lockerbie bomber is exposed […]

Read More
Health / Policy

Patients suffer. Standards fall. So why is competition still such a dirty word in the NHS?

Published in the Daily Mail (May 26th, 2011) Living in a high-tech age of instant communication, it is easy to forget how painful the process of obtaining a […]

Read More

Posts pagination

Previous page Page 1 … Page 10 Page 11
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.

aid autism Blair Boris Brexit Cameron China coalition Conservatives Corbyn coronavirus crime Daily Mail democracy Dfid Disability drugs EU Farage Guardian 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

  • X
  • Bluesky
  • Instagram

Like what you are reading? To start or stop receiving email notifcations for new articles please enter your email address.


 

© Ian Birrell. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy. Website byAbi