Euthanasia – the Joffe Bill – 2004

My Lords,   On a Friday last June many of us gathered in your Lordships’ House for what must rank as one of the longest second reading debates in recent years, starting at 11am and not finishing until just before 7pm. This was a memorable debate with many...

Mental Capacity – 2005 Speech

January 10th 2005 Speech by Lord Alton of Liverpool on the 2nd Reading of The Mental Capacity Bill.       My Lords, I support the principle of creating a statutory framework to protect those individuals who lack mental capacity. Those organisations that have been...

Charities, SRI, and Making Change – 2004

   When most charities were formed they had as a basic mandate the desire to bring about change – so shouldn’t they be using their leverage to challenge and to change? Yet, there is always a nervousness that by collaborating with commercial interests you can become...

Ruskin and the Money Making Mob

A Wake Up Call For Executives And Trustees - delivered in 2004   David Alton.     John Ruskin once wrote that “a nation cannot last as a money making mob.” Most of us would concur with that view and would want to see wealth used ethically and creatively.  The movement...

Finding Somewhere For the Birds To Sing.

    Finding Somewhere For the Birds To Sing.   David Alton       People take various routes into politics. Mine was the well trod path from local government into the House of Commons. I now sit as an independent in the Lords.     Throughout the...

darfur Report 2004

A JUBILEE REPORT   October 2004                     SUDAN Darfur: The Genocide Continues   Prepared by Lord Alton of Liverpool and Rebecca Tinsley               1.0 Introduction   1.1  Lord Alton and...

Congo Report 2004

  A JUBILEE REPORT   September 2004                                                              ...

Rwanda Report – 2004

  JUBILEE REPORT     October 2004                                                                       RWANDA The Killing Continues – The Legacy of the Rwandan Genocide 1.0 Purpose   1.1 Between Sept 26th to Oct 1st 2004, a Jubilee Action delegation...

Lord David Alton

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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