I recently met Jimmy Wales, the remarkable man who launched Wikipedia in 2001. For anyone who may not have used Wikipedia – and there can’t be many internet users who haven’t– Wikipedia is a free open content internet encyclopaedia which has transformed access to...
Pacem in Terris and the tranquillity of order. Pacem in Terris at 50.
http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/2329/ipacem_in_terrisi_at_50.aspx https://www.davidalton.net/2012/05/04/3100/ On April 11th, 2013, we will celebrate the official publication of Pope John XXIII’s encyclical, Pacem in terris: On Establishing Peace in Truth,...
Truth, Justice, Charity, Liberty in a Globalised World – Paper given at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Vatican City, during a symposium in anticipation of the 5oth anniversary of the publication of Pacem in Terris
https://www.davidalton.net/2012/05/04/pacem-in-terris-and-the-tranquillity-of-order/ Truth, Justice, Charity and Liberty in the Globalised World Rome, April 2012 THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Vatican City XVIII PLENARY SESSION (27 April – 1 May 2012)...
Reflections on Local Elections 2012
Traditionally, the first Thursday of May is local election day. This weekend, spare a thought for those good local councillors who have lost seats, not because of local issues, but because the electorate wanted to punish Messrs.Cameron and Clegg. I cut my teeth in...
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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Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL4061): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what steps the Foreign, Commonwealth and...