Back to the Commons. I decided to take my motorcycle, hoping for good weather. Rather unexpectedly, it drizzled for the first hour and then remained overcast to London. After a private lunch with colleagues of both Houses, I went to the Thatcher Room in PCH for the second session examining the so-called 'grey zone'. Grey zone conflict (or ‘hybrid conflict’) occurs when a hostile power uses every asset is has to achieve a strategic outcome, without actually going to war. These moves are more often than not denied and in most cases ambiguous. This second session took a more international perspective and examined how NATO viewed hybrid threats and opportunities. We had one excellent witness, Mr James Appathurai, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber, at the Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber (IHC) Division, NATO. You can watch the session on Parliament TV. I had got wind of a controversial Motion that was to be debated for two hours in the evening. It was House business and, as such, not Whipped. In simple terms, the motion set out how an MP could be expelled from the House if charged with a crime involving violence or serious sexual assault. There were those, mostly on the other side of the House, who wanted that bar to be set at arrest. My friend and colleague, Jacob Rees-Mogg, made an excellent speech, reminding the House that this should be done via legislation, not a Motion, and involving the whole House, as has been the convention for many, many years. Unfortunately, it seemed that many of our side of the House had not quite understood what was at stake and were not there at the vote at about 2030. Consequently, the Government's motion was lost. While no one wanting the bar to be set at charge was defending wrong-doers, they were simply defending the most basic of our judicial laws, that a person is innocent until proven guilty. MPs now face the likelihood of being guilty until proven innocent. This when we are already scrutinised by numerous organisations and committees. In other news, hundreds of women contacted BBC News with their stories of experiencing trauma during childbirth, from their pain at not being believed, to being left bleeding and alone after their baby was born. Rishi Sunak said the government would appeal against a court ruling that provisions of the UK's Illegal Migration Act - which created powers to send asylum seekers to Rwanda - should be disapplied in Northern Ireland. In the US, former fixer Michael Cohen revealed he warned Donald Trump "there’s going to be a lot of women coming forward" when he announced his presidential bid while giving testimony during the former president's hush-money trial. And Russia said its forces had entered the north-eastern border town of Vovchansk, near Ukraine's second largest city Kharkiv.