MoS – Ian Birrell http://ianbirrell.com Columnist & Foreign Correspondent Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:35:09 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 http://ianbirrell.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-ian-birrell-favicon-32x32.png MoS – Ian Birrell http://ianbirrell.com 32 32 Still no one will point the finger at real villains of this grisly saga http://ianbirrell.com/still-no-one-will-point-the-finger-at-real-villains-of-this-grisly-saga/ Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:35:00 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=7542 Agree to 30-day truce or face new sanctions, Starmer and Europe’s top leaders tell Kremlin http://ianbirrell.com/agree-to-30-day-truce-or-face-new-sanctions-starmer-and-europes-top-leaders-tell-kremlin/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:39:52 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=7086 Deafening silence of Labour’s Lord Covid http://ianbirrell.com/deafening-silence-of-labours-lord-covid/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:59:36 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=7059 Why Labour’s science minister Patrick Vallance must come clean on what he knew about the Wuhan lab leak theory he was so quick to rubbish http://ianbirrell.com/why-labours-science-minister-patrick-vallance-must-come-clean-on-what-he-knew-about-the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-he-was-so-quick-to-rubbish/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:22:03 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=7050 Former CDC boss reveals bombshell new evidence of Covid cover-up and says ‘father of the virus’ Fauci concealed Wuhan lab leak to protect US spies embedded in China http://ianbirrell.com/former-cdc-boss-reveals-bombshell-new-evidence-of-covid-cover-up-and-says-father-of-the-virus-fauci-concealed-wuhan-lab-leak-to-protect-us-spies-embedded-in-china/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:46:40 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=7044 Vital rewilding or utter insanity? Debate rages over the freed bears terrorising Italian villages http://ianbirrell.com/vital-rewilding-or-utter-insanity-debate-rages-over-the-freed-bears-terrorising-italian-villages/ Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:01:43 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=6346 Miliband’s bonanza £1m salary from charity while cutting jobs and aid projects http://ianbirrell.com/milibands-bonanza-1m-salary-from-charity-while-cutting-jobs-and-aid-projects/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:39:19 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=6324 Is Moscow hiring gangsters to sabotage Western factories supplying arms to Ukraine? http://ianbirrell.com/is-moscow-hiring-gangsters-to-sabotage-western-factories-supplying-arms-to-ukraine/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 09:13:46 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=6264 Guards at Harry’s Africa charity face new killing and torture allegations http://ianbirrell.com/guards-at-harrys-africa-charity-face-new-killing-and-torture-allegations/ Wed, 22 May 2024 15:46:20 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=6238 Why that lime in your Margarita might be soaked in the blood of a farmer murdered by Mexican gangsters http://ianbirrell.com/why-that-lime-in-your-margarita-might-be-soaked-in-the-blood-of-a-farmer-murdered-by-mexican-gangsters/ Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:15:38 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=6228