This piece on Kenyans abused in Saudi Arabia, and government complicity, is a shocking read. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w...

As I wrote earlier this year, the BMA is a disgrace - as so often in its abysmal history - that needs to be defeated for national well-being ianbirrell.com/doctors-unio...

Today is the 50th day of strike action by junior doctors over the past two years, despite their 28.9% pay rise, while the NHS remains trapped in permacrisis and patients suffer

Today is the 50th day of strike action by junior doctors over the past two years, despite their 28.9% pay rise, while the NHS remains trapped in permacrisis and patients suffer

Has there ever been such a bungled budget build-up? Utterly absurd kite flying exposes a clueless government…

What is wrong with these people. They just spent two weeks rolling the pitch for a U-turn on a policy they didn’t even do yet?

Has there ever been such a bungled budget build-up? Utterly absurd kite flying exposes a clueless government…

Very chuffed 👇

The mistaken release of prisoners exposes a profound crisis far bigger than simply Labour ineptitude - my @theipaper.com column on Westminster’s complacency, collective political failure and our decaying public services inews.co.uk/opinion/mist...

The BBC has made mistakes and is often its own worst enemy - allowing it to come under attack from Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, two of the biggest liars to hold the highest office in their lands in recent times.

Excellent, excellent column this by Martin Wolf - capturing a neglected truth, which is this government is an 'Old Labour' one, not in the way it was useful for Blair and Corbyn to caricature, but in the 'how those governments actually governed (and mostly lost):

Certainly the demolition of the BBC would please Farage's political pin-up Vladimir Putin and his former paymasters at the Kremlin's propaganda unit RT

The mistaken release of prisoners exposes a profound crisis far bigger than simply Labour ineptitude - my @theipaper.com column on Westminster’s complacency, collective political failure and our decaying public services inews.co.uk/opinion/mist...

It’s so grim - and a depressing sign of the times - that Reform UK bigots are putting this absurd and offensive suggestion into the public arena

It’s so grim - and a depressing sign of the times - that Reform UK bigots are putting this absurd and offensive suggestion into the public arena

‘They take the money and go’: why not everyone is mourning the end of USAID www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My daughter died a year ago. Mexico's Day of the Dead helped soothe my pain - my @theipaper column reflecting on grief and differing attitudes to death, now posted on my website ianbirrell.com/my-daughter-...

My daughter died a year ago. Mexico's Day of the Dead helped soothe my pain - my @theipaper column reflecting on grief and differing attitudes to death, now posted on my website ianbirrell.com/my-daughter-...

Weird how Max Hastings claims to be a hawk on Russia today given his calls to appease Putin in the initial weeks of the full-scale invasion

Ian’s previously written compassionately about Alice. Here he writes on his own grief, as the first anniversary of his daughter’s death approaches, and how he found solace in Mexico, where Día de Muerto is much more than a tourist attraction, a day of remembrance and celebration of those we mourn 🩷

This is really sinister kowtowing to China by a British university. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

My daughter died a year ago. Mexico's Day of the Dead helped soothe my pain - my ⁦‪@theipaper.com‬⁩ column reflecting on grief and attitudes to death inews.co.uk/opinion/daug...

My daughter died a year ago. Mexico's Day of the Dead helped soothe my pain - my ⁦‪@theipaper.com‬⁩ column reflecting on grief and attitudes to death inews.co.uk/opinion/daug...

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

Over the course of a decade the Conservatives have moved from being a centre-right party in coalition with liberals to adopting far-right policies in their desperation for post-Brexit relevance

The Conservatives would not deport as many people as Idi Amin. They would deport *more*. www.ft.com/content/9a1d...

The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

Farage's duplicity on Russia, pushing of Putin’s propaganda and shameful betrayal of democracy shows that he is totally unfit to lead our country. My ⁦‪@inews.co.uk column inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

Farage did not predict the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There's always a tweet.

She also says ‘the international rules-based order is based on the idea that everyone would want to be nice to each other post-war’ showing an astonishing naivety and lack of historical knowledge.

Farage's duplicity on Russia, pushing of Putin’s propaganda and shameful betrayal of democracy shows that he is totally unfit to lead our country. My ⁦‪@inews.co.uk column inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

Does Robert Jenrick even realise English clubs were banned from playing in any European football competitions after May 1985 for the rest of the decade, returning only in 1990/91, after Heysel disaster, as UEFA + our government felt fans couldn't be policed safely travelling away?

So it looks like Trump is being played by Putin and betraying democracy yet again

So it looks like Trump is being played by Putin and betraying democracy yet again

So will Trump really change his stance on Ukraine after his Gaza deal - or continue to betray their fight for freedom while falling for Putin’s lies? My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/news/world/t...

So will Trump really change his stance on Ukraine after his Gaza deal - or continue to betray their fight for freedom while falling for Putin’s lies? My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/news/world/t...

Farage is lying over his party’s links to a Kremlin stooge. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n... Why is this story of Russian ties to the party leading in opinion polls being ignored by most of the media? (My recent article ianbirrell.com/russian-tent...)

Perspective | Now most people in Western countries - apart from a few silly populists - can see the sinister reality of the Russian leader's reign 🖋 @ianbirrell.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/LIVv3SC

Putin's real motives have been clear for decades and everyone should be able to see the sinister reality. My @theipaper.com 'Perspectives' column alongside Sky's Diana Magnay and defence expert Robert Fox on the Kremlin's endgame inews.co.uk/opinion/puti...

Putin's real motives have been clear for decades and everyone should be able to see the sinister reality. My @theipaper.com 'Perspectives' column alongside Sky's Diana Magnay and defence expert Robert Fox on the Kremlin's endgame inews.co.uk/opinion/puti...

This explosion of Gen Z protests show the failure of older generations around the world. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/gen-...

This explosion of Gen Z protests show the failure of older generations around the world. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/gen-...

Is it last orders for German beer? My @unherd.com piece on the brewing crisis in another national champion unherd.com/2025/10/is-i...

Is it last orders for German beer? My @unherd.com piece on the brewing crisis in another national champion unherd.com/2025/10/is-i...

More Russian war crimes

My @unherd.com column from last year on Venezuela's Iron Lady, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize unherd.com/2024/07/the-...

Well done to the Nobel Peace Prize panel for resisting pressure and giving this year’s award to the courageous Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado. She is such a deserving winner

Well done to the Nobel Peace Prize panel for resisting pressure and giving this year’s award to the courageous Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado. She is such a deserving winner

'My daughter died of a ketamine overdose at just 21 but now I want this drug legalised.' Vicky Unwin of @transformdrugs.bsky.social and and @anyoneschild.bsky.social powerfully sets out the case for reform in the Daily Mail www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic...

Excellent slice of controlled fury at Jenrick’s repulsive racism 👇