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Inside Reform: it is worse than I feared
Immigration / Politics

Inside Reform: it is worse than I feared

Published by The i Paper (8th September, 2025)

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Russia / Ukraine / United States

Trump’s tragic betrayal of Ukraine

Published by The i Paper (18th August, 2025)

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Trump is giving Putin what he wants
Russia / Ukraine / United States

Trump is giving Putin what he wants

Published by The i Paper (11th August, 2025)

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United States

Trump has become the victim of his own conspiracy theories

Published by The i paper (21st July, 2025)

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Iran / Israel, West Bank & Gaza / Russia

Putin risks losing another ally but his rule may be boosted

Published by The i paper (24th June, 2025)

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Russia / Ukraine / United States

Lasting peace remains a distant hope

Published by The i paper (12th May, 2025)

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Agree to 30-day truce or face new sanctions, Starmer and Europe’s top leaders tell Kremlin
Russia / Ukraine

Agree to 30-day truce or face new sanctions, Starmer and Europe’s top leaders tell Kremlin

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th May, 2025) Sir Keir Starmer joined the leaders of France, Germany and Poland in Kyiv yesterday in a bid to ramp […]

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United States

History will not be kind to Trump’s shameful sycophants

Published by The i paper (1st May, 2025) Barely two weeks after Donald Trump’s return to the White House, a Republican congresswoman called Anna Paulina Luna put forward […]

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Another piece of theatre from Trump
Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Another piece of theatre from Trump

Published by The i paper (28th April, 2025) Certainly the picture was historic: two presidents, seated in simple chairs amid the magnificence of St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

These attacks on Kyiv are proof Putin is emboldened by US appeasement

Published by The Daily Mail (25th April, 2025) It is 11 years since I watched Russian troops stripped of military insignia seize Ukrainian army bases in Crimea, while […]

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Is the sun setting on tourism to the US?
Business / Economics / United States

Is the sun setting on tourism to the US?

Published by The i paper (21st April, 2025) Route 66, cutting through the heart of the United States from Illinois to California, offers drivers one of the world’s […]

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Aid / Economics / World

Trump signals the end of globalisation

Published by The i paper (7th April, 2025) I am writing these words on a computer that was made in China for an American company. Later, I will […]

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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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