2011 Presentation slides: Educating for good science and good ethics
India and Human Trafficking – Question in Parliament
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench) To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their response to the announcement that India has ratified the United Nations protocol on human trafficking. Hansard source (Citation: HL Deb, 24 May 2011, c414W) Lord Howell of Guildford...
The Legacy of Malcolm Muggeridge
Malcolm Muggeridge, who died, aged 82, in 1990, eight years after becoming a Catholic, was a great controversialist, consummate broadcaster and brilliant wordsmith. Like G.K.Chesterton, before him, he lived by his pen – both as a working journalist and as an author. ...
New Ideas for Korea's Future – interview, May 2011
From: Google Alerts <[email protected]> Date: 25 May 2011 15:54:11 GMT+01:00 News 1 new result for "Lord Alton" British Cases Offering New Ideas for Korean Future Daily NK Lord Alton points out in the interview, which was held at the Houses of...
The 1985 House of Commons Debate on the Anglo Irish Agreement
Anglo-Irish Agreement HC Deb 26 November 1985 vol 87 cc747-828 747 770 5.20 pm § Mr. David Alton (Liverpool, Mossley Hill)During the course of this debate it seems that we have been tilting at a number of imaginary windmills. Some speakers have referred to the...
The Plight of Tibetan Monks at Kirti Monastery
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench) To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of allegations of human rights violations of Tibetan Monks by Chinese authorities at Kirti Monastery, Sichuan, reported in The Economist on 24 April; whether they have...
Thomas a Kempis and The Imitation of Christ
What did Pope John Paul I, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Edith Cavell, Dag Hammarskjold, Jose Rizal, and the fictional Maggie Tulliver all have in common? Put another way, if you were marooned on Roy Plomley’s mythical desert island, and told that you could take The Bible...
The State Visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland, May 2011
The State Visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland, May 2011 The defining moment of the State Visit by Her Majesty the Queen to Ireland was her bowed head in Dublin’s Garden of Remembrance as she laid a wreath to the men and women who fought and died for Irish...
Memorabilia…article for "Total Politics"
Memorabilia: article for Total Politics David Alton My three items of political memorabilia are linked to Liverpool. The portrait is of William Roscoe, elected to the Commons in 1807 as a Liverpool Member – serving for just three months. During that Session William...
Camp Ashraf and the plight of the refugees: Question in Parliament.
May 19th 2011: House of Lords EU: Transfer of Iranian Refugees Question 11.20 am Asked By Lord Corbett of Castle Vale To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their response to a proposal from a European Parliament delegation to Iraq that the European Union Council of...
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...