Few figures in modern politics command the stage like George Galloway. Born in 1954 in Dundee, Scotland, he became one of the youngest chairmen of the Scottish Labour Party at just 263. He entered Parliament in 1987 by defeating Roy Jenkins—and he has been defying expectations ever since.
Yvonne Ridley is a British journalist, author, and activist whose life story reads like a thriller. Born in the working-class mining town of Stanley, County Durham, she cut her teeth as an investigative reporter for The Sunday Times, The Observer, and the Daily Mirror.