Author: Yvonne Ridley

WTX News Diplomatic Editor Dr Yvonne Ridley is an award-winning journalist and an author. She is a WTX News champion and one of our premier journalists. She is the Diplomatic Editor and provides in depth, analytical pieces that everyone should read. In her early days she worked as a senior reporter with several well-known British newspapers including The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Independent on Sunday and The Sunday Express. While working for the latter as Chief Reporter on an undercover assignment in Afghanistan immediately after 9/11 she herself became the subject of international headlines when she was held by the Taliban. She is part of the core team that runs WTX News and ensures our work is always based on serving the readers. We absolutely love her work and hope you will too.

Are we intolerant or simply bonkers? As Boris Johnson’s burqa row has illustrated this past week we live in an intolerant world but two other stories which caught my eye have left me feeling extremely frustrated and wondering if the world has gone completely bonkers. The first story revolved around a pensioner who complained that her hotel in the Spanish resort of Benidorm had ‘too many Spaniards in it’. Freda Jackson even asked why the Spanish couldn’t go somewhere else on holiday. She claims some of the Spanish guests were just so rude leaving her in tears and she was also angry that…

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