Ian Birrell is an award winning foreign correspondent foreign correspondent and columnist based in London, England.

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Birrell is an alumnus of the University of Aberdeen.

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He is a contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday as foreign reporter and political commentator.

Birrell has a weekly column in the ‘i’ paper and also writes for many other outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Mail, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times, The Sun, The Spectator and Mosaic.

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He is the Foreign Reporter of the Year (2015) and Columnist of the Year (2015) at the British Press Awards.

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