An audio download of Claire Tomalin's brilliant lecture can be found at: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/roscoe/101110.htm https://www.davidalton.net/2012/02/17/dickens-faith-and-fiction/ October 31st 2012 It is especially appropriate that Ms.Tomalin should deliver this Roscoe...
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Claire Tomalin’s Roscoe Lecture Celebrating The Bicentenary of Charles Dickens
An audio download of Claire Tomalin's brilliant lecture can be found at: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/roscoe/101110.htm https://www.davidalton.net/2012/02/17/dickens-faith-and-fiction/ October 31st 2012 It is especially appropriate that Ms.Tomalin should deliver this Roscoe...
The Story of Alexander Ogorodnikov – new book to be published on the life of "the eternal dissident"
A Dutch Catholic writer, Koenrad De Wolf, has recently published the remarkable story of Alexander Ogorodnikov, one of the great Christian dissidents of the Soviet Union. The book has now been translated and it is to be published in English in the New Year. It is the...
The Story of Alexander Ogorodnikov – new book to be published on the life of “the eternal dissident”
A Dutch Catholic writer, Koenrad De Wolf, has recently published the remarkable story of Alexander Ogorodnikov, one of the great Christian dissidents of the Soviet Union. The book has now been translated and it is to be published in English in the New Year. It is the...
North Korea Case Reports and Human Rights Violation: From Documentation to Advocacy – why human rights in North Korea are key.
Kim Dae Jung Library - his prison uniform https://www.davidalton.net/media/Click on this link for the power point presentation which accompanies this talk. : David Alton (Professor Lord Alton of Liverpool) Seoul, September 2012. In setting the scene and in...
Iran and Capital Punishment – Why is the world so silent in face of Tehran’s appalling human rights record?- the fate of Gholamreza Khosravi Savajani, facing execution in Iran
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/why-is-the-world-so-silent-in-face-of-irans-appalling-human-rights-record-8117379.html Iran: Capital Punishment — Question 11:28 am May 24th 2012 and, September 2012, the fate of Gholamreza Khosravi Savajani - facing...
Two Korean Kims – two remarkable and brave men
Two Remarkable Korean men – Stephen Kim and Kim Dae-jung It is now three years since the death of South Korea’s Cardinal, Stephen Kim Sou Hwan – one of the great churchmen of the twentieth century. At the time of his death his friend and ally, the former President,...
The Tyburn Lecture – May 9th 2012
The Tyburn Lecture, May 9th 2012. David Alton: “What Price Faith?” The prophet Isaiah reminds us that you should never forget “the rock from which you are hewn.” And in the Book of Deuteronomy we are told to “remember the days of old; consider the generations long...
Chen Guangchen – the courageous blind man who sees with clear sight that which the world has failed to see
Chen Guangcheng is the blind self-taught human rights lawyer who has opened the eyes of the world to China’s one child policy. Chen has courageously exposed egregious violations of human rights which for decades world leaders have chosen not to see and which western...
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)...
Finding Somewhere For the Birds To Sing.
Finding Somewhere For the Birds To Sing. David Alton People take various routes into politics. Mine was the well trod path from local government into the House of Commons. I now sit as an independent in the Lords. Throughout the...
darfur Report 2004
A JUBILEE REPORT October 2004 SUDAN Darfur: The Genocide Continues Prepared by Lord Alton of Liverpool and Rebecca Tinsley 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Lord Alton and...
"Bringing about Political Change" – Liverpool Hope University 21st February – 2012
Liverpool Hope University Bringing About Political Change 4 - Powerpoint Presentation Hope University: Tuesday February 21st 2012. "Bringing about Political Change" Arun Gandhi attributed the following remark to his grandfather, Mahatma: “You must be the...
The Horror of Mesothelioma – No Way To Treat Victims
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill Committee (6th Day) (Continued) Monday January 30th 2012 8.54 pm Amendment 137A Moved by Lord Alton of Liverpool 137A: Clause 43, page 30, line 23, at end insert- "( ) The amendments made by this section do not...
The Predictable Unpredictability of North Korea – and a small cause for hope as North Korea Faces Life Under the Leadership of Kim Jong Un – and the role of Dr.James Kim who will tell the story of the creation of Pyongyang University of Science and Technology at Westminster on February 15th.
The Predictable Unpredictability of North Korea – and a small cause for hope. ...as North Korea Faces Life Under the Leadership of Kim Jong Un - and the role of Dr.James Kim who will tell the story of the creation of Pyongyang University of Science and Technology at...
December 9th 2011 British Parliamentary Debate On The Plight Of Christians In The Middle East
http://www.copts.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3437&Itemid=1 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldtoday/l_19.htm House of Lords Friday, 9 December 2011. 10 am Prayers—read by the Lord Bishop of Newcastle. Christians in the Middle...
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Parliamentary Speeches and Interventions: 1979 – 2005 HANSARD 1803–2005 → People (A) Mr David Alton March 15, 1951 - Constituencies Liverpool Edge Hill March 29, 1979 – June 9, 1983 Liverpool Mossley Hill June 9, 1983 – March 8, 1988 Liverpool Mossley Hill March 8,...
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...
Educating for good science and good ethics: Educating for Virtue: Lecture at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, North Korea, October 2011
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...
Parliamentary Interventions 1979-
—————————————————————————————————————————————————– Parliamentary Speeches and Interventions: 1979 – 2005 HANSARD 1803–2005 → People (A) Mr David Alton March 15, 1951 - Constituencies Liverpool Edge Hill March 29, 1979 – June 9, 1983 Liverpool Mossley Hill June 9, 1983...
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 (HL4060): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions the Foreign Secretary has...
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A new Opium War, on British streets: Government responds to illicit Chinese pharmaceutical and chemical companies producing and smuggling illegal drugs into the UK and the use of the internet to promote sales of opioids hundreds of times stronger than heroin, which...