🧵After some 3 months in Europe, I'm beginning to prepare to go back home. A few thoughts as I reflect on my experience here this summer. First, American democracy is different from what exists in the #EU today, and that shouldn't surprise anyone, but should make us think. 1/10
Yet more heartbreaking news from #HongKong
The Chinese Communist Party and its ridiculous, pathetic, petty, paranoid, cowardly henchmen in Hong Kong are absurd. They are petrified of books. They’re terrified of booksellers. And they’re absolutely scared witless by people who think and have ideas and beliefs.
@Miss_Snuffy@AllisonPearson Being a ‘colonisee’, I can proudly say that the claims that Britain exploited its colonies are unfounded- at least true to the case for the way it governed my once living great city in the Far East. There is no point for the leftist to make up stories.
Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West.
The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.
Months before he was appointed National Security Adviser, Jonathan Powell was in China, on one of his numerous trips to engage with the Grandview Institution.
The Grandview Institution is *not* a normal think-tank.
Former CIA analyst and President of @JamestownTweets@PLMattis said:
“Grandview is an intelligence-controlled think tank that exchanges the illusion of access for the influence and collection opportunities of elite engagement.”
@ASPI_CTS analyst @BethanyAllenEbr said:
“GVI has remarkable convening power for an unofficial think-tank, arranging meetings for government and military delegations from around the world with senior Chinese government and party officials."
GVI’s links to military and intelligence are “not normal for an unofficial think-tank”, she also said.
In response to this, unnamed Foreign Office officials have gone on record to argue that “you can’t engage China without encountering some CCP officials”.
The fact that engagement with a CCP intelligence front and elite capture vehicle like Grandview is being casually brushed off and categorised as "normal engagement" is a matter for serious concern, and underlines what @CitySamuel argued in today’s @thetimes: the FCDO is culpably, wilfully blind on China.
See the 📸 below for the backgrounds of some of Powell’s interlocutors in Grandview. Just a sample.
Let’s be clear: this is NOT a normal institution. Engaging with them in pursuit of dialogue is a weird kind of cosplay. GVI intends to collect intelligence, entrap and influence. They are not benign think-tankers sincerely interested in exchanging views. If their interlocutors (like Powell) don’t know this, it’s a big problem. If they do, then what’s the point?
Given that Powell is now the National Security Adviser, I think we are entitled to know:
1⃣ What was the nature of the discussions between Powell and GVI?
2⃣ Were any agreements made between Intermediate and GVI?
3⃣ Did any money or sponsorship change hands? Were any of his trips paid for by GVI?
4⃣ What contact, if any, has he had with this group (directly or indirectly) since being appointed to the most sensitive security related role in the UK?
5⃣ Were these meetings minuted?
Has he met with GVI on any of his trips to China while in post?
6⃣ Was his exposure to Chinese intelligence risk-assessed before his appointment, or merely dismissed as “normal engagement” per the FCDO’s risible claim above?
It is noteworthy that Powell is widely rumoured to be heavily engaged in foreign policy decision-making, and has appropriated particular authority regarding China, even prompting FCDO officials to lament privately that he is the “de facto Foreign Secretary”. It is no secret that he pushes for a softer line on China. He was even accused of having a hand in the collapse of the Cash/Berry espionage trial (putatively to save Beijing’s blushes).
We don’t know how much of his current approach has been formed by his engagement with groups like Grandview, but it is certainly a matter of public interest, given the sensitivity of his role.
Supporters of the Hong Kong National Security Law have no place in UK politics. Morally and constitutionally untenable.
@reformparty_uk@Nigel_Farage should kick him out.
https://t.co/051RkxJGpl?
🚨ALERT: MY FRIEND'S LIFE IS UNDER THREAT – POLICE ARRESTED HIM, NOT THE THREATENERS
Jihadis across the UK are targeting my friend Harman Singh Kapoor (@kingkapoor72) and his family with death and rape threats and violence -just because his restaurant Rangrez refuses to sell halal meat.
They've faced:
- Mobs blocking the entrance
- Vandalism, egg-throwing, and intimidation
- Thousands of harassment calls daily
- Explicit death and rape threats
This is coercion and fear to enforce halal Sharia compliance- not a business choice.
When Harman warned he would defend his family (per Sikh faith and self-protection rights) if attackers came to harm or kill them, police arrested HIM today (March 14, 2026) - not the mobs or the threat-makers.
If anything happens to Harman, his wife Khushi, or their beautiful, loving family - assault, murder, or even the slightest harm - the whole world will be watching.
I will expose every enabler, every official who ignored the threats, and every example of two-tier failure.
Keep a very close eye on @DillyHussain88, he is fanning the flames! It is his speciality!
@MetPoliceUK@MayorofLondon - protect this family NOW.
End the injustice.
A little throw back: I spoke to @60Minutes exactly about transnational repression a month before the gov’t arrested my then 68-year-old dad in 2025.
It became the only “voice” I had at the time to my dad’s arrest. Unplanned and unintended yet unfortunately, apt and timely.
The U.S. condemns the Hong Kong court's sentencing of Kwok Yin-Sang, father of U.S.-based activist Anna Kwok, and calls for his immediate release. The targeting of individuals who advocate for basic freedoms in Hong Kong and their families is unacceptable.
I have received an incredible amount of abuse for holding our rape gang inquiry, the whole team have - we came under vast pressure to cancel it when Labour announced their ‘effort’.
I have never been more convinced that we made the right decision.
What we have released, particularly through our statement yesterday, is just scratching the surface.
More women have come forward. There are so many more stories to tell.
I can say that as a team, we are feeling more determined than ever.
This is a national network of evil.
No other word.
I hope that the British people are starting to understand just how deep the poison runs.
A comprehensive report is being published, and then we aim to put people in prison. That’s our plan.
The establishment doesn’t like it, but we are just getting started.
🚨BREAKING: Restore Britain is now the fastest-growing political party in British HISTORY.
100,000 members in just 10 DAYS and polling at 7% nationally.
ITS FINALLY HAPPENING,WE ARE TAKING OUR COUNTRY BACK 🇬🇧