U.K. says “Reports that the hair of Uyghur and other minority women detained in prisons and “political re-education camps” is being used for profit is deeply disturbing, and such practices are unacceptable. No business, whether in the UK or abroad, should profit from...
Danny Kruger MP is right “There’s a better way of dying than assisted suicide.” Changing the law is providing a one way, no return, ticket to death.
Danny Kruger MP is right “There’s a better way of dying than assisted suicide.” Changing the law is providing a one way, no return, ticket to death. Danny Kruger Wednesday September 15 2021, 9.00pm, The Times Danny Kruger MP is right “There’s a better way of dying...
Stephen Daisley, writing in The Spectator, says Parliament must “draw the line at self-destruction. If the life of the individual is not inviolable, then nor are the rights that life confers.”
tephen Daisley, writing in The Spectator, explains the dangers of assisted suicide and says Parliament must “draw the line at self-destruction. If the life of the individual is not inviolable, then nor are the rights that life confers.” The British Medical Association...
Simon Caldwell is right: Assisted suicide is the opposite of death with dignity.
Simon Caldwell is right: Assisted suicide is the opposite of death with dignity: "the myth that only a lethal cocktail of drugs or a deadly jab can deliver a beautiful and serene death is a romantic fantasy, the stuff of movies….Although some patients die relatively...
Dr.Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, powerfully sets out the case against changing the law on “assisted dying“.
In a Statement to the British Medical Journal Dr.Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, powerfully sets out the case against changing the law on assisted dying-“those resisting legal change include a large proportion of those most directly involved in...
Written Questions Tabled in Parliament: Tigray, Iran, China, Hikvision, Taliban, Faulty PPE, plus Balloted Motion on slave labour, child labour and exploited labour in supply chains
Written Questions Tabled in Parliament: Tigray, Iran, China, Hikvision, Taliban, Faulty PPE, plus Balloted Motion on slave labour, child labour and exploited labour in supply chains
Mekelle University says only 20-50% of farmland in Tigray will produce reasonable outputs – well below what is required.
A research team of Mekelle University and UGent says that conflict in Tigray will mean in that area of Tigray only 20-50% of the farmland will produce reasonable outputs - well below what is required to sustain the local population in a subsistence farming economy A...
Protecting, Respecting and Valuing Life – from it’s very beginning. (Lord) Yehudi Menuhin, the renowned violinist once said he first learned his love of music in his mother’s womb. His mother was once told, “Madam, your womb is a veritable conservatoire.”
Yehudi Menuhin - Lord Menuhin Monday January 25th 2021Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud, for raising this crucial issue. There are four amendments in this group, and I would like to speak to Amendments 15 and 172. Amendment...
Nuala O’Loan And David Alton Urge Ireland’s Politicians To Stop and Think Before Backing Euthanasia
Nuala O'Loan And David Alton Urge Ireland's Politicians To Stop and Think Before Backing Euthanasia. TDs should stop and think before permitting the administering of lethal drugs to seriously ill people - and consider what similar legislation has led to elsewhere. Op...
Nagorno-Karabakh’s carnage – a continuation of the Armenian Genocide.
Nagorno-Karabakh's carnage - a continuation of the Armenian Genocide The Government was asked today, in Parliament, how Nagorno-Karabakh's, indigenous, overwhelmingly Armenian, community see today's terrible violence as an extension of the Armenian genocide, which...
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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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...
Stop Perpetrators Getting Away With Genocide – Public Letter sent to the UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24. The letter was published this morning, 17 April 2024, 06:00 am UK time.
Stop Perpetrators Getting Away With Genocide - Public Letter sent to the UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24. The letter was published this morning, 17 April 2024, 06:00 am UK time. 'First of its kind': Prominent lawyers...