Minding The Gap As they step from the platform to the train at London's Embankment tube station passengers are frequently told to "mind the gap." It's advice to which the Government should pay attention. This month saw a further disturbing widening of the gap between...
Maamtrasna Murders and The Execution of An Innocent Man – commemorative event in Galway on Saturday December 15th.
Press Release: Embargo 1.00pm, 20th November 2012 Myles Joyce who was unjustly executed for his alleged part in the ‘Maamtrasna murders’ 130 years ago will be recalled at a commemorative event in Galway next month. He was convicted in connection with...
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...