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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Tortoise

Yevhen’s story: how a father from Ukraine rescued his children from the Kremlin clutches

Published by Tortoise (30th May, 2023) The Polyany sanatorium is a two-storey brick building in verdant grounds about an hour’s... Read Full Article

The enforcer

Published by Tortoise (7th January, 2021) Soon after Tony Blair won his second landslide election victory, the Daily Telegraph interviewed five women... Read Full Article

Old money

Published by Tortoise (18th May, 2020) There is little to distinguish Burlington Court Care Home from thousands like it around... Read Full Article

The country that closed its psychiatric hospitals

Published by Tortoise (17th December, 2019) Elisabetta Paci spent a year planning to take her own life after deciding her... Read Full Article

The contender

Published by Tortoise (12th September, 2019) Mounir Baatour does not dare drink in bars or dine in restaurants, watch films... Read Full Article

Running on empty

Published by Tortoise (25th July, 2019) Prabu Kasinathan was leaning over a concrete balustrade, gazing at the vastness of Puzhal... Read Full Article

Meet the Clintons

Published by Tortoise (29th April, 2019) It must have felt like the good old days as they walked into the... Read Full Article