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...
Compassion, Care and Cancer – Roscoe Lecture by Baroness (Professor Ilora)) Finlay
Compassion, Care and Cancer - Roscoe Lecture by Baroness (Professor Ilora)) Finlay Roscoe Lecture: Professor the Baroness Finlay http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/roscoe/97603.htm 26 October 2011 Professor the Baroness Finlay of Llandaff recently delivered a Roscoe Lecture titled...
House of Lords Debate on Human Rights
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The Condition of England Question – LUMSA, Rome 2011
LUMSA, Rome, October 2011 “The Condition of England Question – values and virtues” Also: accompanying powerpoint presentation: Rome LUMSA 2011 (97 - 2003 version of office) David Alton First, may I thank Matthew Fforde and LUMSA for inviting me to give this lecture....
The San Jose Articles and the Right To Life
On becoming a Catholic, Lord Nicholas Windsor renounced his claim to the Throne. He also became committed to the right to life of the unborn – and in a Committee Room of Parliament he recently gave voice to his support for the San Jose Articles and to his conviction...
Report on the first International Conference to be held at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology and How the University Came Into Being
Pyongyang’s First International Conference on Science and Technology: and the remarkable story of Dr.James Kim and the Genesis of PUST. October 2011. We were an unlikely cast - a United States astronaut who had been four times in Space; a Nobel Laureate, who had...
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...