Felicity Arbuthnot
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Felicity Arbuthnot is a journalist, writer and political activist, renowned for her articles opposing the UN sanctions against Iraq and the US led invasion of Iraq.
Born Felicity Anne Clarendon-Hyde, she married David C D Arbuthnot in 1967 and divorced in 1973, retaining the surname. She has one son by Colin Simpson.
Felicity Arbuthnot is a journalist with credits from John Pilger. She has been nominated for numerous awards[citation needed]. Her articles on Iraq can be read on her blog Arbuthnot4Iraq.
Arbuthnot is an advisor to the BRussels Tribunal and is an editorial advisor to the Palestinian Chronicle and Global Research.ca. She is a regular contributor to numerous publications of varying political views, including the British based Morning Star and has co-authored with Niki Van der Gaag a book, Baghdad - in the Great Cities educational series for World Almanac Library.
She is a supporter of the British based Iraq Solidarity Campaign and Middle East Cultural Association. Arbuthnot says: "to watch countries like Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan slide from the impossible to the apocalyptic in the name of 'freedom and democracy' shames all the West cites as 'civilised'".
She played herself in Paying the Price: Killing the children of Iraq (2000).
She was a friend of the kidnapped and murdered aid worker Margaret Hassan [1]. She suggested that Reg Keys (the father of a soldier killed in Iraq) stand against Tony Blair instead of Geoff Hoon as he had originally planned [2].
