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.

One day, #Israel and its supporters will realise that fact, and peace and justice will follow. Until then, the heroic Palestinians remain anything but victims in my eyes. So please don’t give them your tears. Don’t cry for #Gaza.

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My days – or rather nights – of sitting through the wee hours until daybreak watching election results unfold are more or less over. I prefer a good night’s sleep and then sit back and enjoy the analysis of who won what, why and where. And so for England’s council elections I opted for a good night’s sleep and woke to listen to the BBC Today programme on Radio Four. It was obvious from snatched conversations as I whizzed around getting ready for the day that Labour must have had a bad night. Switching on BBC TV, the analysis was…

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