One of the leading authorities on China's one child policy, Reggie Littlejohn, spoke on behalf of Women's Rights Without Frontiers at Westminster, yesterday, March 23rd 2011, about coercive population measures, at a meeting organised by the All Party Group on Human...
Fr.Steven Ochieng's work in Turkana – 2011
One of the journalists who attended this week's event in the House of Lords, at which Fr.Steven Ochieng described his work in Turkana, wrote the following article which summarised Steven’s key messages. This is a great service that you may find of interest. ...
Takashi Nagai – atomic radiation and the suffering of Japan
Known affectionately as “the saint of Urakami”, Takashi Nagai died on May 1st, 1951, six years after the atomic bomb fell, on August 9th 1945, on his city of Nagasaki. A convert to the Catholic faith, Dr.Nagai, came from a family of doctors. He was a physician...
Libya and the arms trade
The spectre of British manufactured weapons and munitions being used to crush dissent and to wound, maim and kill pro democracy demonstrators in North Africa and the Gulf brings great shame to this country. Elsewhere, especially in fragile or destabilised regions of...
In Harmony – making music in West Everton at St.Mary and the Angels
The uplifting strains of Julian Lloyd Webber’s seventeenth century ‘Barjansky’ Stradivarius cello are guaranteed to transport even the weariest soul to another, better, place. Music has the power to penetrate our deepest, darkest, hidden places – healing,...
Liverpool Legal-Medical Society Votes Against Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide
Click here to see the power point presentation: 2010 Liverpool Medical-Legal Society 1 The Motion debated on November 25th at the Liverpool Medical Institution, by the Liverpool Legal-Medico Society (lawyers and medics) was to support changes in the law...
Brian Jacques, Redwall and The Parting Glass
The Parting Glass First sung in the 1600s, The Parting Glass was well known in both Ireland and Scotland. Before Auld Lange Syne replaced it this song was the most popular parting song in Scotland and it is closely related to the Manx song Te Traa Goll Thie (It's Time...
Jon Cruddas, Robert Ressell, and the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Frank Owen is the central character and hero of Robert Tressell’s “The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists”. The novel takes its name from the angry sense of impotence and indignation which Owen reveals in this extract from the book: "As Owen thought of his...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? Essay for GIS Reports April 19th 2024.
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/crossroads-isolationism-leadership At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? LORD DAVID ALTON OF LIVERPOOL READING TIME: 16 MIN History teaches us that isolationism leads to disaster. Will the...
Letter from the Lord (David) Alton and Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, co chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, to Lord (David) Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, about the CCP’s forced repatriation of North Korean refugees in breach of both the 1951 Refugee Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
£1 Trillion – Raised In Parliament Today. The Cost of Reparations In Ukraine and Bringing To Justice Those Responsible.
https://youtu.be/xlEfrgwELvc Alongside the fatalities, injuries and chronic suffering and misery which Putin’s war has brought to Ukraine, the economic cost of rebuilding and remedying war damage is now estimated to be close to £1 trillion. Yesterday David...