Who was ever heard to utter on their deathbed "I wish that I had spent more time at the office?" Most of us will ruefully reflect that insufficient time had been spent with our families and with the ones we love or in doing the things that we know give real worth or...
Craigmyle Lecture Given in 2002 – Faith in Education, Faith in Formation: Keeping Faith In A Changing World.
Each year a lecture is given in the House of Lords to commemorate the work of Lord (Donald) Craigmyle a former President of the Catholic Union. In 2002 the Craigmyle Lecture, was delivered by Lord Alton of Liverpool. Faith in Education, Faith in Formation: Keeping...
Educating For Citizenship
EDUCATING FOR CITIZENSHIP INSIGHTS FROM EUROPE (text originally delivered at Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virgina, USA). On both sides of the Atlantic the debate about 'educating for citizenship' has become a metaphor for a more fundamental debate about...
Plague Wars
“Plague Wars”, by Tom Mangold and Jeff Goldberg, Macmillan, £18-99p. When reports appeared of an outbreak of a mysterious brain virus which claimed the lives of five people in New York, the City’s then mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, gave orders for the spraying of...
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...