Newsnight – Ian Birrell https://ianbirrell.com Columnist & Foreign Correspondent Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:26:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://ianbirrell.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-ian-birrell-favicon-32x32.png Newsnight – Ian Birrell https://ianbirrell.com 32 32 The BBC needs to sack the suits https://ianbirrell.com/the-bbc-needs-to-sack-the-suits/ Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:29:53 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=5145 Cleese’s threat to boycott Britain is beyond satire https://ianbirrell.com/cleeses-threat-to-boycott-britain-is-beyond-satire/ Mon, 06 Aug 2018 14:09:39 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=4287 An epic, tragic blunder – but we must not let the BBC self-destruct https://ianbirrell.com/an-epic-tragic-blunder-but-we-must-not-let-the-bbc-self-destruct/ Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:41:14 +0000 https://ianbirrell.com/?p=1542