Yvonne Ridley

 From CAIRO  Telling the truth can be a complicated business.    It was one of the first lessons I learned at a ...

I'Ve never met Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit but he reckons I am a very bad European along with the 1400 other peace activists ...

THE activities of the rent boys who parade up and down Al-Shawarby Street in Cairo provide a good metaphor for the relationship the Egyptian Government has with ...

THE activities of the rent boys who parade up and down Al-Shawarby Street in Cairo provide a good metaphor for the relationship the Egyptian Government has with ...

THE Pakistan Government has been ordered to secure the release of scientist Dr Aafiya Siddiqui from US custody. Yvonne Ridley reports from Islamabad. ...

I WONDER how many of you have woken up to the fact that America's latest leader is really a political Houdini ... an illusionist on ...

RACISM is a repugnant trait and we should all adopt a zero tolerance towards it, whenever and wherever it arises. It is a blight which still ...

THERE is a smug group of men and women in the US intelligence services who knew President Barack Obama was never going to release the ...

I’VE often said Islamaphobia is last refuge of the racist and it can manifest itself in many forms. Sometimes it is right ...

IT’S a question I’ve often asked myself but her ineffective initiatives and weak sound bites have largely been so insignificant that most of us choose ...

I'VE never been a huge flag-waving fan of the Union Jack because to me it was largely a symbol of the old British Empire and ...

THE last 24 hours have probably been the blackest since the Viva Palestina convoy set off from London.  Yesterday the convoy members became the ...

WAR-mongering politicians across the world who have used their country's superpower status and might to bully others into submitting to their demands will be watching ...

AS a journalist I love being first with the news so when I was handed a red hot exclusive story a few hours ago I ...

AS the sun rose over the Tarifa ferry terminal in Southern Spain this morning the view was quite spectacular as row after row of vehicles ...

IF you ever thought travelling in a convoy was easy, think again. This latest drive from Bordeaux in France to Madrid via ...

TOMORROW is Valentine's Day, a celebration rooted in paganism until Christian leaders pegged it to the legend of a third century saint after failing miserably ...

Guantnamo Bay is, without doubt, the world’s most notorious prison which left an indelible stain on the Bush Administration.One of the first acts of US ...

TRY as he might, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert can not snatch any sort of victory out of the jaws of defeat that are closing ...

THE media coverage of the war in Gaza by Western television companies is largely unfair and biased because of a refusal to show viewers the ...