Yvonne Ridley
Yvonne Ridley is a British journalist and a patron of the London-based human rights NGO cageprisonners.com as well as being the Vice President of the European Muslim League. Her website is www.yvonneridley.org and she's on Twitter @yvonneridley.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, March 3, 2015 15:24 - 0 Comments
Comment | Don’t Shoot the Messenger: The Real ‘Jihadi John’ Debate
Attacks by the media and political establishment on campaigning charity Cage over its statements on Mohammed Emwazi are wrong-headed and obscure the real debate we need to be having, argues Yvonne Ridley.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Wednesday, May 14, 2014 12:00 - 6 Comments
Comment | Michael Gove’s Dickensian plot against Muslim educationists
Michael Gove's virulent campaign against Muslim educationists - recently evidenced by the Trojan Horse plot that wasn't - shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's been paying attention to his record, argues Yvonne Ridley.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, May 9, 2014 12:26 - 2 Comments
Comment | Leaping into the Halal meat debate? Mind the Islamophobic bandwagon
Animal rights campaigners and consumers are justified in their outrage over the ambiguity of food packaging labels. But anyone leaping into the latest Halal meat controversy should mind the Islamophobic bandwagon, warns Yvonne Ridley.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, February 14, 2014 19:54 - 9 Comments
Comment | Scottish Independence: Westminster’s unholy alliance short-changes Scots over the Pound
This week, the UK's three main parties joined forces to claim an independent Scotland would not be able to keep the Pound. This is further evidence of the increasing panic gripping Westminster over September's referendum, argues Yvonne Ridley.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, October 11, 2013 17:50 - 8 Comments
Comment | Blacklisted for Being Muslim: On Quilliam, the EDL and the Islamophobia industry
As UK construction firms are due to pay compensation for their unlawful blacklisting of thousands of workers, it appears another neo-McCarthyite blacklisting drive is under way, this time against Muslims, writes Yvonne Ridley.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, September 4, 2013 15:05 - 30 Comments
Comment | Why Scottish independence gets my vote
Socialist journalist Yvonne Ridley's decision to support the call for Scottish Independence will raise a few eyebrows among her friends from the Left but the arrival of Chancellor George Osborne to Aberdeen this week prompted her to explain here why she will be backing the 'Yes' campaign.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, March 22, 2013 16:59 - 3 Comments
Comment | Who’s (still) afraid of Emily Wilding Davison?
As the centenary of heroic suffragette Emily Wilding Davison's death approaches, a campaign is under way for it to be marked with a minute’s silence at the iconic Epsom Derby horse race. Unsurprisingly, the proposal is being resisted by the very same Establishment that tried to crush women’s rights back in 1913, argues Yvonne Ridley.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, February 8, 2013 9:54 - 4 Comments
Comment | Incompetent, sleazy and corrupt: why Scotland Yard must be dismantled
Recent scandals, from undercover agents stealing the identities of dead children to senior counter terrorism officers trying to sell information to the media, have further tarnished the Met Police's long record of incompetence, greed, corruption, mendacity and sleaze. It is not fit for purpose and should be dismantled, argues Yvonne Ridley.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Saturday, January 19, 2013 14:14 - 39 Comments
Special Report | Who is Dr Aafia Siddiqui? And why are Algerian hostage-takers demanding her release?
A key demand of the Algerian hostage takers is the release of a Pakistani mother-of-three currently serving an 86-year sentence in a US prison. So why has her case gone virtually unmentioned in the mainstream media? Journalist Yvonne Ridley, herself a former hostage, reports.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, June 1, 2012 0:00 - 26 Comments
Comment | Barack Obama: an out of control psychopath with a God complex
Barack Obama's ascent to the presidency four years ago was cheered by billions around the globe, hopeful for a new era of peace and justice. Alas, says Yvonne Ridley, we have been conned.
