Persecution

Chancellor Rishi Sunak recently signalled via the national press that he wants to divert billions of pounds of foreign aid to bolster security. It is an answer to the prayer…

Western military intervention in the Middle East, however well-intentioned its perpetrators may have been – or wished to be – has often caused more problems than it has solved. The…

There has been a disturbing apathy in the Western world. What should be a major and continuing news story across national and international networks has been ignored or shunted into…

 There can be no question that Covid-19 is changing the world and each individual nation that has been afflicted. No-one knows for certain of how and when the pandemic will…

Africa’s greatest obstacle to attaining the global status that befits her has been its lack of leadership. This the main drawback to the sustainable transformation that the continent deserves. “Common…

The UK Government has revealed it is set to sanction high-profile individuals with a track record of human rights abuses around the world. This is welcome news, as a resurgent…

I put on record my thanks to all the hon. Members who are here today, as well as to the Minister—who I spoke to yesterday, and has spoken to me…

Two weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend a private conference sponsored by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office focusing on social cohesion in Nigeria. At the…

I had a quick look through Hansard and discovered that I first started speaking on this subject 20 years ago in a debate on the persecution of Christians in Egypt.…