Educating for Good Science and Good Ethics: Educating for Virtue Text of an address to be given by by Professor Lord (David) Alton at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, October 4th 2011. Powerpoint Presentation to accompany lecture Let me begin by first...
The Condition of England…
2011 Presentation slides: The Condition of England Question 2011
J.R.R Tolkien
David Alton talk on J.R.R Tolkien - 2011 Audio: J.R.R Tolkien Talk - David Alton audio version Presentation slides: Tolkien Liverpool 2011 final copy Presentation slides: Liverpool Catholic Chaplaincy Talk on Tolkien February 2011
Tentative Steps Towards Religious Reconciliation in North Korea: Vatican Radio Interview
History was made this week as a delegation of religious leaders from South Korea crossed into the communist ruled North on an official visit. The Conference of Religion for Peace delegation includes representatives from the Catholic Catholic Church and other Christian...
Anniversary of Pope Benedict State Visit – Christian Heritage Centre for Britain?
One year ago, at Westminster, Pope Benedict told English Catholics not to lose their identity; not to forget their Christian roots; to remember who they are; to pass on their beliefs to their children and to share their love of their Faith with their countrymen. Some...
Phone Hacking, The Role of Journalists and The Media, and Chesterton
As the controversy about the media telephone hacking rumbles on, I occasionally look at a poignant cartoon which I cut out of one of our national newspapers. The cartoonist pictures a starving Somali refugee who, clasping his telephone, demands an inquiry into whether...
Abortion and the Nadine Dorries Amendment
http://www.edinburghprolifesociety.com/. The recent debate about Nadine Dorries’ attempt to change the regulatory framework governing pre-abortion counselling has once again opened the debate about the 1967 Abortion Act. Whatever the rights and wrongs about the...
Children Starving In North Korea – important Channel Four Report
http://www.channel4.com/news/north-koreas-children-starve-as-kims-lead-anniversary-rally
When China Rules the World…
“When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order” (out in paperback next January) is the provocative the title of Martin Jacques’ assessment of China’s future role as the dominant global power. For more than a...
Crime Against Humanity in Sudan – and Southern Sudan's Application To Join The Commonwealth
Sudan Question 11.06 am Asked by Baroness Cox To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the conflict in Southern Kordofan and of the continuing problems in the other marginalised areas of the Abyei and Blue Nile regions of the Republic of Sudan. The...
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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Statement by the All-Part Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities, on April 16th – the anniversary of Iqbal Masih’s murder
Statement by the All-Part Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities, on the anniversary of Iqbal Masih’s murder See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW15xzLt2VI [London, 16 April 2024] Today, the APPG for Pakistani Minorities, a cross-party parliamentary...
Questions on the warning by Médecins Sans Frontières of a critical vaccine shortage in Darfur; prediction by UNICEF’s that 700,000 Sudanese children will suffer severe malnutrition; UNICEF’s report that the 2023–24 El Niño phenomenon has led to the closure of schools in South Sudan; and the effect of the prolonged heatwave and drought on eastern and southern Africa.
Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3650): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the warning by...
Despite the suppression of the rights of girls and women in Afghanistan the Government admits it “has not introduced any Global Human Rights sanctions against the Taliban since they took power in 2021.” Parliament needs to assert oversight of the random and opaque process of Magnitsky Sanctions.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3308): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government how many Taliban leaders they have...