Author: Yvonne Ridley

Healthy eating gurus are urging caution among supermarket shoppers after produce high in salt and saturated fats are being promoted as healthy. Chaos among calorie counters as health gurus give food for thought over supermarkets’ false claims over healthy foods. The British Dietetic Association said stores including Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s were being “unhelpful” and “confusing” customers while the Royal Society for Public Health called for an independent supermarket watchdog. Apparently, there is confusion over those who constantly watch their weight or embark on the latest faddy diet. The truth is very simple – if you want to lose weight eat less. It’s…

As Syria’s first lady recovers from breast cancer Yvonne Ridley points out some of the female prisoners in Assad’s prisons are fighting the disease without care or medication

How did he wind up on Obama’s kill list? In a rare one-to-one interview, Kareem talks frankly about his near-death experiences, the war in Syria, a breakdown of the militias inside the country and his views on ISIS/Daesh.

The violence at the border bridges prompted Colombia to order the aid trucks to turn back. #Colombian #migration authorities also said they would close down the area’s four border crossings until Monday

WTX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Bilal Abdul Kareem breaks his silence about his life covering the Syrian war and surviving a US kill list

After UAE’s own goal in football shirt row there’s more angst on the way for Qatar World Cup from Aussie, Lynton Crosby

She was a child. She was groomed online and now it is clear she is traumatised and brutalised by living with the nut-jobs from #ISIS @YvonneRidely

While the rest of Europe looks the other way millions of ordinary democracy-loving citizens are focused on the Catalan show trials

How dare these muppets to try and destroy football?

this conflict has cost the lives of between 500,000 and one million civilians, displaced more than half of the country’s 22 million population

During my last encounter with senior members of the Taliban shurah ……

On the day yvonne Ridley addressed a Holocaust Memorial event in Newcastle just nearby thugs from the far right went on a wrecking spree at a local Muslim academy. History has taught us nothing, she says.

It ended even more dramatically as armed militants from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), stormed a remote mountain-top house where the Birmingham aid worker was being held.

Why is Britain lagging behind when it comes to solving drone dramas?

No response is a response except Meghan Markle’s dad can’t read the signs, says Yvonne Ridley

Yvonne Ridley applauds the decision to pull the plug on Tommy Robinson’s website and points out UKIP has appointed the far right extremist as an advisor even though he’s never voted in an election

Israeli snipers fired into a crowd with battlefield weapons on the Gaza border on the day Razan al-Najjar died giving rise to accusations of war crimes.

As academic Matthew Hedges enjoys Christmas with his family after Foreign Office intervention, Yvonne Ridley wonders why the FCO is silent on another case of rough justice involving a British citizen jailed in Myanmar

As four-year-old Palestinian dies Yvonne Ridley asks how often you read beyond the headlines after seeing key buzz words like Gaza, funeral, Hamas and protests?

Brexit is bonkers, says Yvonne Ridley but don’t let it divert SNP attention as now is the time for #Indyref2

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in the Netanyahu household, it seems as Facebook bans Israeli PM’s son for spitting anti Muslim hate.

News headlines focus on what Corbyn did or din’t say to May while editors miss the big story of US military pulling out of Syria and plunging America foreign policy into chaos

I fear the same as Nour Norris that many women of faith and no faith, of all skin colours, nationalities and ethnicity are suffering in silence.

When Margaret Thatcher quit she had actually won the confidence vote.

Ted Baker boss is too hands on say some staff unhappy with store founder’s hug culture!