Tokyo and Seoul Speech to Promote the UN World Orphans Day Initiative - October 27th 2014. Speech transcript: Time for the United Nations to create a World Orphans Day?  Presentation slides: Tokyo-Seoul World Orphans Day

Also see Rebecca Tinsley: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-tinsley/time-to-celebrate-the-bra_b_6081788.html Tokyo and Seoul Speech to Promote the UN World Orphans Day Initiative: October 27th 2014. To access powerpoint accompanying this talk, click here:...

The recent decision to award Malala Yousafzai the Nobel Peace Prize was a good one for women and a good one for Pakistan but the decision to sentence Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian, to death was a bad one for all women, all minorities, people of all faiths, and...

Korea Security Conference: University of Central Lancashire. October 16th 2014. Keynote Address by David Alton (Professor Lord Alton of Liverpool): “North Korea – Looking to the Far Horizon” This is a timely moment to consider the situation on the Korean Peninsula....

Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the reply by Lord Faulks on 9 December 2014 (HL Deb, col 1710), what evidence they have for the assertion that a lack of good research proposals is deterring research into mesothelioma and that there...

Also see: h https://www.davidalton.net/2012/01/04/apocalypse-revelation-lord-of-the-world-lord-of-the-rings-and-fr-elijah/ Anthony Doerr's All The Light We Cannot See is set during the Second World War. It beautifully links the destiny of a blind French girl and a...

Roscoe Lectures: Hear the latest Roscoe Lecture: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/roscoe/101110.htm Last night (October 1st) John Fleming, Executive Vice President Europe of Ford Motor Company, flew into Liverpool from Detroit to give last night's Roscoe Lecture. The title of...