Lies, fake news, scummy far-right protesters and shameless political fellow travellers - the darkness and dangers for Britain exposed by the Epsom rape case. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/epso...

Lies, fake news, scummy far-right protesters and shameless political fellow travellers - the darkness and dangers for Britain exposed by the Epsom rape case. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/epso...

South Korea’s fertility crisis, a warning for the developed world and the radical feminists who shun dating, heterosexual sex and marriage - my report from Seoul on a country selling more prams for dogs than babies www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Misogyny has consequences..

South Korea’s fertility crisis, a warning for the developed world and the radical feminists who shun dating, heterosexual sex and marriage - my report from Seoul on a country selling more prams for dogs than babies www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Germany has announced plans to expand its armed forces from 184,000 personnel to at least 460,000, including reserves, after naming Russia as the key security threat. Complacent Britain has about 140,000 serving members of the armed forces, down from 178,000 in 2010.

The vital lessons Britain must learn from Ukraine and Trump’s failure in Iran. My ⁦‪@theipaper‬⁩.com column on defence spending and the evolution of warfare inews.co.uk/opinion/vita...

The vital lessons Britain must learn from Ukraine and Trump’s failure in Iran. My ⁦‪@theipaper‬⁩.com column on defence spending and the evolution of warfare inews.co.uk/opinion/vita...

Very sorry to hear about the death of Andy Kershaw, a brilliant broadcaster and fearless journalist with great taste in music. He was always bold, challenging, friendly, generous with advice or help - and a participant in the initial meeting that led to Africa Express. RIP Andy

Very sorry to hear about the death of Andy Kershaw, a brilliant broadcaster and fearless journalist with great taste in music. He was always bold, challenging, friendly, generous with advice or help - and a participant in the initial meeting that led to Africa Express. RIP Andy

Behind Trump lies a key architect of a catastrophic misadventure - my @theipaper.com column on Netanyahu, the Iran war and shredding of Western support for Israel inews.co.uk/opinion/arch...

'Like his soulmate in Washington, Netanyahu stands exposed as a man who learned nothing from the Iraq debacle and whose self-serving actions are weakening his nation, shedding support among allies and making the world less safe.'

Behind Trump lies a key architect of a catastrophic misadventure - my @theipaper.com column on Netanyahu, the Iran war and shredding of Western support for Israel inews.co.uk/opinion/arch...

Good luck Hungary 🇭🇺 in ousting Orban today - from all who believe in democracy rather than corrupt populism

Deserted hotels, empty shopping malls and fears for the future - my report from Dubai on the collateral damage caused by a foolish war mol.im/a/15722537

Deserted hotels, empty shopping malls and fears for the future - my report from Dubai on the collateral damage caused by a foolish war mol.im/a/15722537

Making Putin happy, as ever…

I helped legalise medicinal cannabis but it has turned into a farce. My @theipaper.com column on the dismal failure of timid politicians and urgent need for serious drug reform inews.co.uk/opinion/lega...

A single doctor is responsible for one in ten cannabis prescriptions, doling them out a rate of one every two minutes www.thetimes.com/article/3c83... This strong @thetimes story underscores my column on the ludicrous medical cannabis market 👇

Opinion | Britain has ended up with the worst of all worlds: a lucrative and unfettered market in recreational cannabis that lurks behind the fig leaf of the health service 🖋 @ianbirrell.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/L9Qng7r

I helped legalise medicinal cannabis but it has turned into a farce. My @theipaper.com column on the dismal failure of timid politicians and urgent need for serious drug reform inews.co.uk/opinion/lega...

MattGPT debate

How times change 👇

My report on the 13-year-old girl being groomed for dictatorship in the world’s most repressive (and nuclear-armed) regime mol.im/a/15686127

This looks fantastic - a festival for films made by or featuring people with learning disabilities or autism. Founded by filmmakers frustrated at having nowhere to show their work in 2004, it runs over six days from Saturday at five venues in Brighton oskabright.org/2026-programme

My report on the 13-year-old girl being groomed for dictatorship in the world’s most repressive (and nuclear-armed) regime mol.im/a/15686127

This looks fantastic - a festival for films made by or featuring people with learning disabilities or autism. Founded by filmmakers frustrated at having nowhere to show their work in 2004, it runs over six days from Saturday at five venues in Brighton oskabright.org/2026-programme

Badenoch is so contemptuous of all the people with disabilities and many of their carers with her arrogant sneering at ‘Benefits Street.’ She needs to understand that not everyone relying on the state is a feckless, job shy malcontent

Where the clothes you give to charity shops or recycling bins really end up - my report from Ghana on the destructive impact of fast fashion and clothes dumping mol.im/a/15669611

Nigel Farage has proved again that he would be dangerously out of his depth in a turbulent world if PM - my @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...

Nigel Farage has proved again that he would be dangerously out of his depth in a turbulent world if PM - my @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...

Where the clothes you give to charity shops or recycling bins really end up - my report from Ghana on the destructive impact of fast fashion and clothes dumping mol.im/a/15669611

BTSmania in Seoul

Three more deaths due to care failings, followed by cover-ups, while private equity sharks get fat and the Labour government does nothing to stop them www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump has banned travel from 36 countries - of which 29 are in Africa. The US should be stripped of holding the World Cup if only Fifa was not so pathetically supine to this racist regime www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/w...

British crypto billionaire, freed from jail by Trump, now funding hard-right populists in the cause of ‘free speech’ - while living in Hong Kong, where the Communist Party has ruthlessly crushed the pro-democracy forces of freedom. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rayner is right...

Trump has banned travel from 36 countries - of which 29 are in Africa. The US should be stripped of holding the World Cup if only Fifa was not so pathetically supine to this racist regime www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/w...

‘People were angry because the Americans and Israelis said they wouldn’t attack civilians but we saw they were bombing bakeries, care homes and hospitals’ Good Economist first-hand Iranian account on life trapped between foreign bombs and regime thugs economist.com/interactive/...

The recent rhetoric from the powers that be about Autistic people has been deeply disturbing. From education to benefits to diagnosis and support, the messaging has been negative and harmful. Yet in real life, Autistic people are being failed again and again. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/429...

We are failing the very people we should be helping the most with costly consequences - my @theipaper.com column on one autistic man’s sad story that has powerful political resonance inews.co.uk/opinion/fail...

We are failing the very people we should be helping the most with costly consequences - my @theipaper.com column on one autistic man’s sad story that has powerful political resonance inews.co.uk/opinion/fail...

AI is increasing the speed, density and complexity of workload pressures rather than reducing them as predicted www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...

Don't go on holiday to the US while Trump's in the White House - my @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/no-m...

Don't go on holiday to the US while Trump's in the White House - my @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/no-m...

The world's most powerful nation failed to learn the most obvious lesson of the Ukraine war - and this is being exposed by Iran, sparking mayhem across the Middle East. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/draf...

The world's most powerful nation failed to learn the most obvious lesson of the Ukraine war - and this is being exposed by Iran, sparking mayhem across the Middle East. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/draf...

Just in case anyone doubted the wisdom of staying out of Trump’s war…Blair, shameless architect of a catastrophic invasion of Iraq, is saying Britain should have backed another calamitous Middle Eastern misadventure

Just in case anyone doubted the wisdom of staying out of Trump’s war…Blair, shameless architect of a catastrophic invasion of Iraq, is saying Britain should have backed another calamitous Middle Eastern misadventure

Sport is being used to bring Russia in from the cold – and it is chilling ianbirrell.com/sport-is-bei...