For the Full Council meeting on 17th February I asked a written question to Cllr John Kingsbury the leader of Woking Council about the failure of the council to lower the Woking standard for Li Xiaobo.  I was shocked by the answer Cllr Kingsbury gave, that he regretted lowering the flag Aung Sun Suu Kyi, […]

On Thursday 14th April at a Fully Council meeting of Woking Borough Council a vote will take place on a motion that I proposed at the last Full Council meeting to only fly the flags of countries with democratically elected governments over the Woking Borough Council offices. This motion is not supported by the Conservative […]

In early December I contacted Councillor John Kingsbury, leader of Woking Borough Council, to request that should Liu Xiao Bo remain in prison in China following his award of the Nobel Peace Prize on the 10th December, Woking Borough Council lower the Woking Standard to half mast on the 28th December, Liu Xiao Bo’s birthday.  […]

In my time a Vice President of the International Federation of Liberal Youth I was fortunate to meet some Burmese Liberal Political activists and was inspired by their every effort.  This week I was proud that we have Liberal Democrat ministers in government who can act for Burma when I heard that Deputy Prime Minister […]

Taiwan is not part of China, not even in Surrey Libraries.  However, on Saturday 3rd April I visited Woking Library, browsing the international travel guides I was dismayed to discover a tourist guide to Taiwan nestled under C next to China, not placed near T for Thailand.  I could understand this, if the book was […]

I am certainly not a fan of the Labour government’s foreign policies, I will never understand how an ethical foreign policy and the war with Iraq fit together, however, credit should be given where it is due and the government is making an impressive effort regarding Burma and the title of this blog post comes […]

I like most other Europeans read with concern the case of Akmal Shaikh, a British Citizen and China’s decision to execute him. China executes a higher proportion of its population than the US, with approximately 5000 executed in 2008, for a wide range of reasons, including corruption. In 2009 Zhang Yujun along with 21 others […]

On Saturday after I had finished running Saturday detention at school I went over to see the Rainbow Warrior – Greenpeace’s famous ship in Docklands.  As a member of Greenpeace I had an email last month inviting me to visit the ship and take a tour.  The Rainbow Warrior is moored in Docklands, London on […]

I have relatives visiting from Taiwan this month and last, studying hard at a local English language school.  They have been doing a lot of sightseeing which has been good fun, but as usual when people visit from abroad questions are raised about our imperial past which we seem to have forgotten in the UK. […]

Greenpeace as ever at the forefront in the flight against the destruction of our environment are on their way to the arctic on their ship the Arctic Sunrise to monitor the progress of global warming on the arctic. They will gather evidence to submit at the next global meeting of world leaders on climate change […]