Intermittent reminder that the only crime committed by these moderate democrats was legally standing in a primary election. ft.com/content/10830d…

“The financial crash, populism, the pandemic, China’s rise, war in Ukraine, and the cost-of-living crisis have all combined to shake the breezy liberal confidence that marked the early 2000s”. My new essay for LegatumInst li.com/reports/the-st…

This doesn’t happen every week. But it could…

"I've come not to be served but to serve". Is the way of the cross the only true antidote to the abuse of power? #Coronation

We are delighted to launch the China Strategic Risks Institute (CSRI). CSRI is a global think tank offering in depth analysis on the strategic risks and opportunities posed by the rise of China. Our research covers geopolitics, economics, security and more.

An inspiring and thought-provoking Day 2 at #ARC2023 as we convened some of the world's finest minds to debate the most pressing challenges of our time. Watch the highlights of Day 2 👇 --

"The goods must dance together. They play against each other. They have be put in proper hierarchies, where the more encompassing goods like the virtues, guide the lower goods like the stuff." Jonathan Pageau delivering a passionate keynote speech on The Better Story: The Good,

One of the original New Atheists of the 2000s, Ayaan Hirsi Ali Hirsi Ali has become a Christian. Read her extraordinary account of her spiritual and intellectual journey, exclusively in @UnHerd unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-…

🧵A surreal day Yesterday I was named as one of several foreigners with whom #JimmyLai is accused of "collaborating", and today a message from Jimmy to me asking if I might ask Lord Patten to provide a comment to journalists was produced as "evidence" of a "crime" in court /

Spoke to the BBC about Andy Li’s torture, Jimmy Lai’s sham trial, the UK’s betrayal of Hong Kong people and David Cameron’s silence.

Today’s Times: why David Cameron should demand an end to the charade that passes for justice in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Watch The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong. 重光團隊 Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC Iain Duncan Smith MP Chingford & Woodford Green Baroness Helena Kennedy KC Alistair Carmichael MP Sir William Browder KCMG #FreeJimmyLai #FreeJimmyLai

My article in the The Telegraph It's time to #FreeJimmyLai

Did you know that Michel Foucault has been more cited in the last decade (800,000 academic citations) than Darwin, Einstein and Nietzsche combined since they were alive?

"As boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls, to six times that of young women." WATCH 'Why Boys Need Dads' - New ARC Vision Film 👇

One of the best ARC talks yet. youtube.com/watch?v=IUJMyT…

Benny Tai sentenced to a decade in jail for organising a democratic campaign. Keir Starmer's 'rapport' with Xi Jinping looking well timed. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

"National Security Trials" is a misnomer. These are mild-mannered academics and pro-democracy activists handed up to a decade in jail purely for standing in an election. It is outrageous. cc David Lammy theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

I wonder if Dan Jarvis MP is aware that the protests in Hong Kong in 2019 that drew MILLIONS of people to the streets were about extradition...?! Bizarre move, likely to bring 10s of thousands of BNOs onto the streets.