Hillsborough - Letter from the Director of Public Prosecutions, May 6th 2016: Susan Hemming to take final decisions: and reply: 060516 Letter to The Lord Alton of Liverpool Dear Mr.Okogwu I would be grateful if you would thank the Director for this...
Charles Kennedy, the perils of Coalition Government – 2010 article reproduced by the Daily Telegraph – and a reflection for Tim Farron.
Charles Kennedy, the perils of Coalition Government - Dutch Auctions and the Flying Dutchman: 2010 article reproduced by the Daily Telegraph - and a reflection for Tim Farron. Charles Kennedy death has reminded people of his capability and considerable political...
Archive 2 – more indexed archived speeches and articles.
Also see: https://www.davidalton.net/2014/07/31/archive-indexed-miscellaneous-articles-and-columns/ Speech on the BBC’s Role in Society – 2003 A speech on the withdrawal of food and fluids from patients 2003 Coercive Population Control in China – 2001 Speech by Lord...
Margaret Thatcher
My first encounter with Margaret Thatcher was just a few days before she won the 1979 vote of no confidence - the vote which brought down Jim Callaghan's government and precipitated the 1979 General Election. She was in Liverpool, campaigning in the Liverpool Edge...
Celebrate Conference 2013
Click on the following links to access these presentations: Celebrate 2013 For Such A Time As This Celebrate Conference 2013 - Vatican Two 50 Years Later Celebrate Conference 2013 - Catholic Culture and Identity in the 21st Century Celebrate Conference 2013 - Joel's...
Alexander Ogorodnikov in London for the launch of his biography, The Eternal Dissident.
Alexander Ogorodnikov in London for the launch of his biography, The Eternal Dissident. The foreword by David Alton commends a book which reminds us of the suffering endured in the Soviet Union's gulags - and which is still endured today in the gulags of countries...
Restore Counselling Centre Opened In Liverpool for Veterans – and £300,000 to help wounded members of the armed forces
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/lottery-grant-former-armed-forces-6275741November 2013 - Cheque presentation of £300,000 for members of wounded armed forces by Restore Counselling charity, with Prof Lord Alton, third from left, and Frank Doran, in...
The Story of Alexander Ogorodnikov – new book to be published on the life of “the eternal dissident”
A Dutch Catholic writer, Koenrad De Wolf, has recently published the remarkable story of Alexander Ogorodnikov, one of the great Christian dissidents of the Soviet Union. The book has now been translated and it is to be published in English in the New Year. It is the...
The Story of Alexander Ogorodnikov – new book to be published on the life of "the eternal dissident"
A Dutch Catholic writer, Koenrad De Wolf, has recently published the remarkable story of Alexander Ogorodnikov, one of the great Christian dissidents of the Soviet Union. The book has now been translated and it is to be published in English in the New Year. It is the...
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...
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...