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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MI6

MI6 fears over UK university links to Beijing as at least 12 of them are probed by spooks

Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th February, 2012) (Written with Glen Owen, Political Editor) More than a dozen British... Read Full Article

The man who turned amorality into an art form

Published in The Daily Mail (January 12th, 2013) When Tony Blair visited Beijing a few weeks ago to open a... Read Full Article

MI6 role in Libyan rebels’ rendition ‘helped to strengthen al-Qaida’

Published in The Guardian (October 25th) British intelligence believes the capture and rendition of two top Libyan rebel commanders, carried... Read Full Article

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... Read Full Article

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... Read Full Article