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...
Drama and Music To Make Us Think: Disability Hate Crime, Religious Persecution, Bullying, Relationships, the Holocaust, North Korea, Scapegoating of Minorities…
A theatre company, consisting primarily, but not exclusively, of actors with learning disabilities, recently came to Westminster to perform their play “Living without Fear” – and in one short hour achieved more in raising awareness about...
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...
President Hu Jintao's Chance To End The One Child Policy and Gendercide
The contrast with the American presidential election campaign could not be greater but this week the Chinese Communist Party made its once in a decade transfer of power to a new Politburo of one-party State appointees. President, Hu Jintao is expected to hand over the...
President Hu Jintao’s Chance To End The One Child Policy and Gendercide
The contrast with the American presidential election campaign could not be greater but this week the Chinese Communist Party made its once in a decade transfer of power to a new Politburo of one-party State appointees. President, Hu Jintao is expected to hand over the...
The Horror of Mesothelioma – No Way To Treat Victims
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill Committee (6th Day) (Continued) Monday January 30th 2012 8.54 pm Amendment 137A Moved by Lord Alton of Liverpool 137A: Clause 43, page 30, line 23, at end insert- "( ) The amendments made by this section do not...
Lecture on the life of the remarkable Sophie Scholl by Professor Frank McDonough of Liverpool John Moores University.
This link takes you to Professor Frank McDonough's lecture about the life of Sophie Scholl:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBeHdtqQHQA
Celebrating The New – Not Seeing Off The Old: The Falconer Commission
http://respublica.org.uk/item/Celebrating-The-New-Not-Seeing-Off-The-Old Baroness Hollins - President Elect of the BMA condemns Falconer Proposals: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8995355/Sick-people-need-help-to-live-not-help-to-die.html The Telegraph View...
Fr.Steven Ochieng's work in Turkana – 2011
One of the journalists who attended this week's event in the House of Lords, at which Fr.Steven Ochieng described his work in Turkana, wrote the following article which summarised Steven’s key messages. This is a great service that you may find of interest. ...
Public Whip – Alton Voting Record Link
David Alton - Voting Record Voting record for David Alton - Link available below: The Public Whip
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...