Ian Birrell

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

@ianbirrell

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

Western aid undermines African democracy

Ian Birrell

07 Dec 2017

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

Ian Birrell

23 Nov 2017

Animals. Are they so different from us?

Ian Birrell

09 Nov 2017

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

Ian Birrell

27 Oct 2017

Catalonian separatists and Brexiteers share self-defeating stupidity

Ian Birrell

11 Oct 2017

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

Ian Birrell

28 Sep 2017

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

Ian Birrell

14 Sep 2017

The even more deadly hurricane surging across America

Ian Birrell

01 Sep 2017

Battles remain but progress on gay rights is now global

Ian Birrell

17 Aug 2017