Pleased to meet representatives of ⁦⁦Prince's Trust Cymru⁩ in Portcullis House and hear of the excellent work it is doing for young people in Wales.

Extraordinarily hard to see how cultural vandalism will warm people to Just Stop Oil’s cause. telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/0…

Brand new passport received six days after applied for. Brilliant service. Many thanks, His Majesty’s Passport Office Office!

Huge credit to His Majesty’s Passport Office Office. Submitted application last Friday. Granted today. Superb service; many thanks.

Two months of misery for West Coast line as Avanti cuts services

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.Conwy Council’s plans for Colwyn Bay’s street layout put cart before horse. People need a reason to come into the centre. Too many shops are empty, so we need more footfall. A good start would be to get more people working in the council’s own offices, currently virtually empty.

Russia and Iran meet with Hamas. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Anything to say, Avanti West Coast? Any explanation for the North Wales travellers (self included) who have had their travel arrangements disrupted yet again?

“The Government should implement a long-overdue ban on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, which controls Tehran’s terrorist network.” telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/2…

.⁦Avanti West Coast⁩ maintaining their usual high standards of customer service.

Yesterday I raised the issue of proscription of Iran’s IRGC at the PM’s statement on Israel and Gaza hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-1…

Ben Wallace: Iran’s sinister plan is in danger of succeeding telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/1…

“Hamas would not exist if not for Iran’s support.” politico.eu/article/israel…

Visited an egg producer in the constituency yesterday. His operation is hugely impressive, but he explained his concerns about avian flu. I was therefore interested in this report in today’s Telegraph . telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/1…

“The pressing question now is how to contain an Iranian regime that, by its own admission, wants to annihilate its enemies. The risk that Hamas’s attacks will provoke a wider regional conflagration will surely only grow if the West shows weakness now.” telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2023/1…

“Members of Hamas and Hisbollah claim that Saturday’s deadly attack was planned in meetings with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.” The IRGC should be proscribed without further delay. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Personally, I think she should keep name checking Drakeford as much as possible. Does the Tories no end of good.

Today’s Old Testament reading:

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his pleasant planting; he expected justice, but saw bloodshed; righteousness, but heard a cry!

Wide agreement among commentators that the hand of Iran is behind yesterday’s bloody events. The British Committee for Iran Freedom has long called for proscription of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under the Terrorism Act 2000 There‘s no good reason for further delay.

Tehran’s malign activities in the region have stoked the bloodshed. “It demonstrates a strategic decision undertaken by the organisation that I don’t think would happen without its patrons in Tehran.” politico.eu/article/iran-h…