“Long overdue statement and a very welcome one. It is abhorrent in the 21st century that any human being should be seen as an untouchable.” -Alton Dalit Christians face discrimination and untouchability, admits Indian Catholic Church - Firstpost...
On Line Safety Bill debated – suicide sites, cyber bullying, and protection of young children.
Subject: On Line Safety Bill Second Reading Friday December 6th 2013 Read the full debate at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201314/ldhansrd/text/131206-0001.htm#13120659000674 1.40 am Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB): My Lords, like other...
World War One – day of World War One Poetry in Liverpool – Remembering the First World War and 16.5 million deaths
Remarks made by David Alton at the launch of the “Merseyisde at War” commemoration of World War One Poetry – hosted by Liverpool John Moores University on November 30th 2013 in Liverpool Visit: http://www.merseyside-at-war.org/ Forthcoming Roscoe Lecture: Thursday 13...
Mind The Gap – Keynote Speech to CSAN Conference on Poverty – June 2013 – and Narrowgate Emergency Night Shelter Salford Closed Following changes to the Housing Benefit rules
Interview on the Increasing Poverty Gap In Britain: www.premier.org.uk/hearttoheart See also Archbishop Vincent Nichols: <a href="http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22745"> CSAN Conference, London Keynote Speech, 12 June 2013 David Alton: ...
Egypt – A Second Revolution?
Last week saw the second anniversary of the seismic events which led to the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. It also saw the beginning of a second Egyptian revolution – which many fear could lead to a full scale civil war, plunging Egypt into the fratricide which...
Hillsborough: twenty three years of cover up
The Scandal of Hillsborough. Twenty three years ago one of my saddest duties while I served as a Liverpool Member of Parliament was visiting families of those bereaved in the Hillsborough Stadium Disaster. Several constituents had died, including a child. One, a...
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...