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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Spectator

That turbulent decade

Published in The Spectator (October 23rd, 2010) No such thing as society: a history of Britain in the 1980’s by... Read Full Article

Caught in the crossfire

Published in The Spectator (July 24th, 2010) Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer (Harper Press) Maqbool Sheikh dreaded hearing a knock... Read Full Article

The hell I share with David Cameron

Published in The Spectator (October 22nd, 2005) My daughter suffered two seizures the other night. One was shortly after midnight,... Read Full Article

Set us free to pay

Published in The Spectator (May 11th, 2002) During the phoney war before the last general election I attended a lunch... Read Full Article

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