Ian Birrell
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 6
- Latest publication
- Sep 29, 2026
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- Jul 3, 2026
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How Putin's war has led to growth of 'Little Russia' on a Thai isle (opens the original)
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The golden domes of a Russian Orthodox church, topped with the traditional three-bar Slavic cross, seem incongruous as they tower over the palm trees, pineapple fields and rubber plantations of a tropical Thai island. Phuket is better known, after all, for the landmark 148ft Big Buddha overlooking a sweeping southern bay and the ornate architecture of the revered Wat Chalong temple – along with all the beaches and bars that lure tourists to this holiday idyll. Yet the Holy Trinity Church symboli
The town with 60,000 sex workers: IAN BIRRELL reveals sleaze he saw (opens the original)
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The jokes, jibes and mockery on social media were inevitable when, after 286 days at sea, a United States aircraft carrier filled with 5,000 sailors docked at a city notorious the world over for sex tourism. It had been the longest modern naval deployment, so American TV teams descended on Pattaya anticipating mayhem as frustrated crew – fresh from a Middle East war zone – encountered the neon-lit go-go bars, massage parlours and beachside prostitutes that throng the pulsating Thai resort. This
Charismatic messiah who could be the most dangerous man in Germany (opens the original)
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The sun was shining, the sausages sizzling and the lager flowing as several hundred people chatted at a traditional German Grillfest in the garden of a family-run hotel. The scene in the village of Moeser seemed like a typical summer barbecue – except for the long line of people queuing to grab a selfie or autograph from a 35-year-old man in a white polo shirt under a blue awning. It would be easy to assume he was a visiting film or pop star with his sharp haircut, friendly smile and beefy bodyg
Illegal children's homes plaguing Britain as owners rake in thousands (opens the original)
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The online blurb and pictures looked alluring: a safe residential home in a charming rural area of Kent, providing support for traumatised teenagers who had been taken into state care and assisting them on their bumpy path to adulthood. But the reality behind the beguiling website imagery was rather different: a two-story redbrick house converted, along with a pair of neighbouring properties, from a former pub and operating illegally as a children’s home. Household goods including beds and a mat
Scientists mocked my Covid leak theory but I was right: IAN BIRRELL (opens the original)
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It can be lonely as a journalist when you dare to challenge conventional wisdom – especially if taking on two superpowers and some of the world's top scientists over the cause of a pandemic. So it has been gratifying to see the steady acceptance of my argument – backed by investigations in harness with fellow dissidents around the world – that it was foolish to ignore the hypothesis that Covid-19 might have leaked from a laboratory. Few serious people now dismiss this concept, despite China's co
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