Ian Birrell

Ian Birrell is an award-winning foreign reporter and columnist. He is also the founder, with Damon Albarn, of Africa Express.

Why you can’t rely on the news media to understand… Europe

16 Mar 2018

Free Minds: Michael Clemens, a global thinker in a world filled with narrow-minded nationalism

23 Feb 2018

Oxfam’s attack on fat cats might be more persuasive if its own bosses weren’t fat cats

22 Jan 2018

CEOs are getting 120 times as much income as workers

05 Jan 2018

Western aid undermines African democracy

07 Dec 2017

It’s slow, overdue but it’s well underway. We’re on the path to the decriminalisation of drugs.

23 Nov 2017

Animals. Are they so different from us?

09 Nov 2017

Mark Zuckerberg hid millions from world governments. Should we now trust him to run one?

27 Oct 2017

Catalonian separatists and Brexiteers share self-defeating stupidity

11 Oct 2017

The gap between Trump’s manufactured promises and life in Middle America

28 Sep 2017

The great survivor of European politics – Germany’s extreme pragmatist

14 Sep 2017

The even more deadly hurricane surging across America

01 Sep 2017

Battles remain but progress on gay rights is now global

17 Aug 2017