A mixed day back in the Commons, with a speech on hospice funding, a charge of spying for China against a parliamentary researcher and another man and the final stage of the controversial Rwanda Bill. It's rarely boring here. Up from Dorset reasonably early and at my desk to draft my speech for the Backbench debate on hospice funding, which was postponed last Monday. After the initial business of the House, Lords' amendments to the Rwanda Bill were back in the Chamber: two of them now. The debate did not last long as the minister had nothing more to say on the matter, so back to the Lords the Bill went. Then it was time for the debate on hospice funding, which ended just before 2200. I spoke in the very good debate, which was consensual and informative. My speech is on the website. Two amendments had been sent back from the Lords, with the Government conceding on one of them. The final amendment was rejected and sent back again to the Lords. Business was then stopped until just before midnight, when we learnt that this game of ping pong was over and the Bill was at last through. What a performance. The Prime Minister was in the Division Lobby to thank us all. He said that the first flights deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda would take off in 10 to 12 weeks' time. In other news, newsreader Huw Edwards resigned from the BBC. Abroad, in the trial of Donald Trump, a prosecutor told jurors that Trump "orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt” the 2016 presidential election when he conspired to prevent damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public. It's extraordinary that the more Trump is accused of, the more popular he seems to become.