Happy New Year!

Brilliant book launch by #NickClegg at Union Chapel last night in the style of fireside chat with @kamalahmednews.bsky.social. Nick's time at Facebook/Meta now chronicled for posterity as he advocates against a fractured internet. #ai #geopolitics #liberalism

Delighted to celebrate 58th #ASEAN Day with colleagues from ASEAN UK Business Forum, VictoriaCollins MP and Chair @paddyforum.bsky.social on 8.8.25 at the #Malaysian High Commission in London

Guess what -- I made it to the summit of Mt Fuji! It was a wet and misty start and I was really worried that the climb would be cancelled. But thankfully day 2 was dry and sunny.
Thanks for putting your faith in me to deliver on this expedition in aid of @paddyforum.bsky.social gofund.me/bed0bd8e

Checked into Toyoko Inn favoured by Mt Fuji climbers. But weather forecast has not been great.

Landed in Tokyo....in readiness for my epic #MtFuji climb in aid of @paddyforum.bsky.social gofund.me/bed0bd8e

Chair of @paddyforum.bsky.social Lesley Batchelor spoke about the book of essays on "The 5 Decade Journey of EU-Asean Relations" authored by academics and professionals from both continents. It is so important to understand different perspectives in a multi-polar world

Delighted to have hosted an #ASEAN reception for the Ambassadors, HCs and diplomats of 10 ASEAN countries with academics, business community and students at @houseoflords.parliament.uk last night.

Thrilled to attend @tveinspire
Global Sustainability Film Awards evening at
@BAFTA on 11.12.24 with colleagues from
@paddyforum.bsky.social

One of these has been hung at a wrong angle though! #Fu #
prosperity

Discovering the treasures preserved in the permanent collection of #MuseedelChico in #Bogota including #Chinese and #Japanese porcelain