The topic of our first joint forum with Liberal Democrats in Business on 29 September was chosen in part to emphasize that trade between UK and China will grow regardless of whether BREXIT does in fact happen.
My first LibDem Conference has been great fun but unfortunately far too short, as I only had a weekend pass. Still, I managed to pack in a whole lot in those two days - here are my highlights:
Whilst compatriots commemorate the losses from the Battle of Passchendaele at Menin Gate over the weekend, there was a screening of a new documentary at Regents University in London on the Chinese Labour Corps and their forgotten contributions in the Great War.
As I was watching the extravagant fireworks display marking the twentieth anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong, it occurred to me that my memories of this seismic event no longer had the lucidity and brilliance of twenty years ago. It did, however, succeed in jumpstarting the somewhat sluggish process of introspection and stocktaking.
WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) are a campaign group that fights the injustice done to all women born in the 1950s affected by the changes to the State Pension Law (1995/2011 Acts).
It is with some sadness that I write this post as Tim Farron is stepping down as leader of the Liberal Democrats because a Q&A...