Benedict Rogers is a human rights activist, a former Parliamentary Candidate, and is Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission. Two events took place yesterday which have the potential to contribute to making our world a better place. One was President Barack Obama’s inauguration – or more specifically, his speech. The other was […]
By Ben Rogers Five months ago, I sat in a remote prison in the hills in West Sumatra, Indonesia, and met a young man, Alex Aan, who had been jailed for his beliefs. I travelled over 1,300 kilometres from Jakarta to see him, involving a flight and a four hour drive through the mountains. Alex, […]
Benedict Rogers is a human rights activist, a former Parliamentary Candidate, and is Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission. Tonight, the man the Prime Minister described less than a year ago as his “new best friend” will address the Royal Commonwealth Society. I recommend you come if you can. It was six […]
Benedict Rogers is a human rights activist with Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission and a former parliamentary candidate in the City of Durham. 9/11 and 7/7 seem a long time ago. The riots last summer appear all but forgotten. Yet two new books have just been published which […]
Benedict Rogers is a human rights activist with Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission and a former parliamentary candidate in the City of Durham. He is the author of Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads, which was published this month. He has visited Burma and its borders more than […]
Benedict Rogers is a human rights activist with Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission and a former parliamentary candidate in the City of Durham. He is the author of a new book, Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads, to be published in July by Random House. He has visited […]
Ben Rogers is a human rights activist, focused on Asia, and a former Conservative candidate. Follow him on Twitter. David Lammy is a ‘Big Society’ conservative. That may be ‘conservative’ with a small ‘c’ – he is, after all, a Labour MP and former Minister – but if his new book is anything to go […]
Twenty three years ago today over 3,000 people protesting for freedom in Burma were gunned down by the country’s military regime. Thousands more were killed during previous months, as the democracy movement swept the nation. Aung San Suu Kyi returned to Burma after many years living abroad, and rapidly emerged as the democracy leader and […]
I am an optimist. I don’t generally buy the Victor Meldrew view of the world. But events of recent weeks have made me deeply concerned for the future of Western civilisation and, in particular, Britain as a civilised state. On many previous occasions, I have written on this site about the threat posed to our […]
Benedict Rogers is Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission and East Asia Team Leader at Christian Solidarity Worldwide. Pakistan has had many dark days in recent years, and yesterday was even darker. The assassination of the Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti, robs the country of another of its leading voices […]
David Cameron's speech at Munich on Saturday is one of the best and most inspiring speeches I have read in a long time. It is one of the most robust defences of freedom and democracy, and one of the most balanced and honest analyses of radical Islamism. In contrast with a previous Conservative prime minister's famous […]
By Ben Rogers Martin Parsons, and Rashad Ali and Haras Rafiq, have done us a great service in their articles on sharia and Islamism last week. These have been issues which I have written about regularly on this site, and I found myself in broad agreement with Martin Parsons, Rashad Ali and Haras Rafiq. This […]
I have just finished reading the memoirs of two people I am not supposed to like: George W. Bush, because no one is meant to like him, and Tony Blair, because I am a Conservative and he kept us in opposition for 13 years. Yet their memoirs, respectively Decision Points and A Journey, are gripping, fascinating, […]
Benedict Rogers, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission and East Asia Team Leader at Christian Solidarity Worldwide, returns from five days in Pyongyang with Lord Alton and Baroness Cox and advocates a peace conference facilitated by the United Kingdom, and a “Helsinki Process with a Korean Face”. North Korea has one of […]
I am not a father, but this year I became an uncle. My six-month old nephew has had a more profound impact on me than I had ever anticipated. And I am deeply concerned about the society in which he will grow up. Twelve days ago, I wrote on the site about threats to our civilisation. […]