[email protected] Children from Bootle's Savio Salesian College recently presented me with a Bat-or-Bird Box which they had made. Others have gone to Downing Street and the Palace - and one is on its way to William and Kate in advance of their wedding. The...
A Parable for Good Friday and What Easter Means To Me
A Parable For Good Friday - sent to me by Jonathan tame of Friday Fives: A wealthy industrialist and his son loved to collect great works of art. They would often sit together to discuss and appreciate the paintings in their collection, which ranged from Raphael to...
Matteo Ricci and Lessons for China and Religious Liberty
This week, the Holy See held a three day meeting to discuss the state of Catholicism in China. Before their meeting, participants could have done a lot worse than read Mary Laven’s superb “Mission to China” – which charts the sixteenth century encounter of the...
Coercive Population Control – the one child policy
China has many great achievements of which it can be justifiably proud. The one child policy, and the coercion on which it is based, is not one of them......Pasted below is some of the background to this contentious issue, a policy which has been...
What Future Sudan? BBC World TV Interview with David Alton
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/world_news_today/8601036.stm This interview was given in 2010 at the time of the launch of the report "What future Sudan?" - chaired by David Alton on behalf of the All Party Group for Sudan.
April 2011 Massacre at Camp Ashraf
Camp Ashraf Massacre and Secretary Gate’s Visit to Iraq On April 6, 2011, early in the morning, the military forces of Iraqi government, about 2500 of them, stormed the campground of the main Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI /...
2011 North Korean Delegation in London
Almost every week parliamentary delegations arrive at Westminster: nothing unusual about that. What was unusual about the delegation which I recently hosted was that they were from North Korea, and, indeed, that North Korea is a member of the Inter Parliamentary...
Why I will reluctantly vote no to AV on May 5th
In just under three weeks the country will be offered the chance to vote for a different voting system. There will be many competing views about the respective merits of the current first-past the post (FPTP) system and the proposed Alternative Vote (AV). Yet for...
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...