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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Is this depravity intrinsic to war, to Russians – or to all humanity once its veneer of civilisation is stripped away?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th April, 2022) On the right bank of Kyiv, close to the city centre, lies... Read Full Article

The man who refused to become Moscow’s stooge

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th March, 2022) Despite the valiant efforts of residents to block roads with felled... Read Full Article

Ordinary people: ten lives snuffed out by Putin’s brutal war machine

Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th March, 2022) Amid the carnage and chaos, it is difficult to track the... Read Full Article

The hole blown through teddy bear wallpaper that could be the pretext for war in Ukraine

Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th February, 2022) As we left the car, there was a loud thump, followed... Read Full Article

One hundred yards behind the front line, windows are still boarded up from the last war

Published by The Mail on Sunday (30th January, 2022) Avdiivka looks like many other small towns in Ukraine, with shoppers... Read Full Article

‘Don’t let this madman force us from our homes again’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd January, 2022) Ekaterina Pereverzeva is struggling to stop fears of war tormenting her... Read Full Article

Call for probe into ‘Covid’ outbreak at wuhan games 2 months before world was alerted

Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th January, 2022) A Canadian military officer who fears he was at the ‘Ground... Read Full Article

Putin’s torture chamber at Number Three, Paradise Street

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th December, 2021) For almost 1,000 days, Stanislav Aseyev was held in a secret... Read Full Article

Truss urged to block diplomat over kidnap of Hotel Rwanda hero

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th December, 2021) Foreign secretary Liz Truss is being urged to block the appointment... Read Full Article

Spectre of war in the Balkans

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th November, 2021) Munira Subasic lost her husband and teenage son in the darkest... Read Full Article

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