25/06/2025 | 20:57:07 Thank you, Mr President. The climate crisis is real. It is here, and it is already costing lives and livelihoods. The fact that we are still having to say so after so many years, so much evidence and the overwhelming weight of scientific opinion beggars belief. There will always be people and political voices who are not strong enough to make a difficult choice. That has always been the way, and it will always be the way. And I know not everybody has the same knowledge as me, and in my... 24/06/2025 | 17:34:12 Thank you, Mr President. There is, quite rightly, a lot spoken about the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine in parliaments, assemblies and debating chambers right across the globe. Putin’s aggression has shattered the post-war consensus and his crimes have challenged the rules-based order that we, here, seek to defend. More than this, though, in 10 or 20 years’ time, when Putin has lost, and he must lose in Ukraine, but when the history of this century is written I know that my...