Covid Lab Leak - read what I said in @UKParliament in 2020 and this post in 2025. Truth telling by brave Chinese and Brits like @mattwridley was inconvenient to CCP regime’s fellow travellers in UK, Europe & US @CharlesHMoore @MPIainDS @TomTugendhat @aliciakearns @SarahChampionMP @timfarron @ipacglobal

During tributes today in @UKHouseofLords to Ann Widdecombe I paid tribute to her principles, kindness and intelligence - grounded in her Faith and Patriotism. From different political traditions we celebrated when we agreed and when we disagreed we respectfully learned to handle differences without rancour. Ann became a great friend and was Godmother to one of my children. In the House of Commons she and Sir David Amess became close friends. I am deeply shocked that both have been murdered. I hope that justice will now prevail and that in a toxic climate of hatred and hate speech we will learn the importance of respecting difference. Watch tributes in full:

Delighted that Pastor Ezra Jin has been released from a CCP jail. Wonderful news for his daughter, Grace, who has campaigned fearlessly for his freedom. Never forget the countless others in CCP jails - like Jimmy Lai. Their continuing persecution must be highlighted and condemned by all of us who enjoy freedom to speak and to act. @MahmutRahima @BishopAngaelos @CSW_UK @JubileeC @caoilfhionnanna

Wise words on the 250th Anniversary of American Independence from the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal : “That America emerged from the revolution as a free republic at all is something of a miracle. Most revolutions end in blood and tyranny, not liberty. As historian Gordon Wood has documented, the U.S. revolution was “radical” in its ideas about liberty and the rights of man. Its ideas emerged from the British Enlightenment—David Hume, Adam Smith, John Locke—that so influenced Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson. “All men are created equal” was about as radical an idea as you could express in 1776. Yes, that equality was imperfectly realized at the time. But the seed was planted, and then nurtured in the soil of the Declaration’s call for liberty and self-government. And as Wood explains in his great book, “The Radicalism of the American Revolution,” these ideas would spread and unleash the republican spirit of free men and women who built America… As for Coolidge, his oration in 1926 on the 150th anniversary deserves to be remembered more than it is: `If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people.’ Are those principles still widely enough held in the country to endure until the 300th anniversary? No one knows, and there are many threats to that endurance. Abroad, China’s Communist Party subsumes the individual to its rule and seeks to spread its counter model of governance. Its technological prowess and massive arms buildup make it a greater threat than the Soviet Union ever was. It can reach the U.S. homeland with its cyber, space and AI weapons. Will we have the political unity and resolve to defend against it..? The institutions of the founding era were created to survive weak or willful political leaders, and so they remarkably have. The rule of law persists, and the Supreme Court is revitalizing the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights and the colorblind Constitution. Above all, the freedom born in the Declaration still allows creative Americans to raise their families, worship as they please, pursue their livelihoods and dreams, and build a prosperous nation. As long as we protect that freedom, America will remain the grand experiment the Founders risked their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to create.”