Educating for Good Science and Good Ethics: Educating for Virtue Text of an address to be given by by Professor Lord (David) Alton at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, October 4th 2011. Powerpoint Presentation to accompany lecture Let me begin by first...
The Condition of England…
2011 Presentation slides: The Condition of England Question 2011
J.R.R Tolkien
David Alton talk on J.R.R Tolkien - 2011 Audio: J.R.R Tolkien Talk - David Alton audio version Presentation slides: Tolkien Liverpool 2011 final copy Presentation slides: Liverpool Catholic Chaplaincy Talk on Tolkien February 2011
Tentative Steps Towards Religious Reconciliation in North Korea: Vatican Radio Interview
History was made this week as a delegation of religious leaders from South Korea crossed into the communist ruled North on an official visit. The Conference of Religion for Peace delegation includes representatives from the Catholic Catholic Church and other Christian...
Anniversary of Pope Benedict State Visit – Christian Heritage Centre for Britain?
One year ago, at Westminster, Pope Benedict told English Catholics not to lose their identity; not to forget their Christian roots; to remember who they are; to pass on their beliefs to their children and to share their love of their Faith with their countrymen. Some...
Phone Hacking, The Role of Journalists and The Media, and Chesterton
As the controversy about the media telephone hacking rumbles on, I occasionally look at a poignant cartoon which I cut out of one of our national newspapers. The cartoonist pictures a starving Somali refugee who, clasping his telephone, demands an inquiry into whether...
Abortion and the Nadine Dorries Amendment
http://www.edinburghprolifesociety.com/. The recent debate about Nadine Dorries’ attempt to change the regulatory framework governing pre-abortion counselling has once again opened the debate about the 1967 Abortion Act. Whatever the rights and wrongs about the...
Children Starving In North Korea – important Channel Four Report
http://www.channel4.com/news/north-koreas-children-starve-as-kims-lead-anniversary-rally
When China Rules the World…
“When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order” (out in paperback next January) is the provocative the title of Martin Jacques’ assessment of China’s future role as the dominant global power. For more than a...
Crime Against Humanity in Sudan – and Southern Sudan's Application To Join The Commonwealth
Sudan Question 11.06 am Asked by Baroness Cox To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the conflict in Southern Kordofan and of the continuing problems in the other marginalised areas of the Abyei and Blue Nile regions of the Republic of Sudan. The...
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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Rwanda Act – Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the UK. Joint Committee on Human Rights 15th May 2024.
In the Joint Committee on Human Rights I pressed Minister Michael Tomlinson MP to accept that the Rwanda Act will not tackle the root causes of the mass displacement of more than 114 million people - and treatment of vulnerable human beings should not be treated like...
Meeting In Parliament To Commemorate The 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre
Meeting In Parliament To Commemorate The 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre Lord Alton will chair a meeting in the UK Parliament to commemorate the 1989, Beijing's Tiananmen Square Massacre. Tiananmen became the focus of large-scale protests - protests which were crushed...
House Magazine – Wake Up Call On CCP Subversion of Democracy: By aligning our response with that of our allies and by implementing robust measures, we should send a clear message to Beijing: that our internal affairs and democratic rights are off-limits to CCP interference.
For all the wrong reasons, China has been in the news again. On the back of a hack and theft of MOD data, accompanied by espionage and cyber-attacks, MI5 briefed Vice Chancellors last week that university research programmes are at risk from malign and hostile...