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Why I Oppose HS2 Speech in the House of Lords and How the money could be better spent on improving the north’s local railways and East-West Cross Pennine rail links Click here to read full post ...
Bloomsbury Speech on the Importance of Religious Literacy
London Conference on the Benefits of Religious Education: Bloomsbury, November 6th 2014. When young people used to ask me what they needed to study if they were interested in entering political or public life I used to say that a grasp of economics and current affairs...
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Also see: https://www.davidalton.net/2014/07/31/archive-indexed-miscellaneous-articles-and-columns/ Speech on the BBC’s Role in Society – 2003 A speech on the withdrawal of food and fluids from patients 2003 Coercive Population Control in China – 2001 Speech by Lord...
Archive – indexed miscellaneous articles and columns
Miscellaneous archived columns on the following subjects: Abortion and the right to know Paying a price for courage Politicians and how they vote on ethical issues 30 years of abortion in the UK Abortion and the possible link with breast cancer Joanna Jepson’s fight...
Mental Capacity – 2005 Speech
January 10th 2005 Speech by Lord Alton of Liverpool on the 2nd Reading of The Mental Capacity Bill. My Lords, I support the principle of creating a statutory framework to protect those individuals who lack mental capacity. Those organisations that have been...
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...
The Fight Facing Us – Speech to Right To Life, London, July 7th 2011
The Fight Facing Us Text of a Speech delivered by David Alton (Lord Alton of Liverpool) on Thursday July 7th, 2011, at the River Thames Right To Life Summer Event It was Victor Frankl in "The Doctor and the Soul", who said “sometimes, the unfinished are among the most...
Spoken Interventions in the House of Lords
To read the details of the following interventions in House of Lords debates and questions please click on this link: TheyWorkForYou Website Results 1-20 of 406 items spoken by Lord Alton of Liverpool in Commons debates or Westminster Hall debates or Lords debates or...
About David Alton
About DAVID ALTON… For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer. He began his career as a teacher but, in 1972, he was elected to Liverpool City Council as Britain's youngest City Councillor. Twenty...
Second Reading of the Palliative Care Bill
Friday February 23rd 2007 For the full text of the debate, click here Lord Alton of Liverpool: My Lords, my noble friend Lady Finlay of Llandaff has rendered a great service to your Lordships’ House by introducing her excellent and timely Bill. I think that we were...
Where 40 years of abortion has led
Universe Column, October 21st 2007 Next Saturday, October 27th, will be the fortieth anniversary of the passing of the Abortion Act. To commemorate the nearly 7 million unborn babies aborted in the intervening forty years, on Friday the 26th at 10.00 am Phyllis...
Can I Make A Difference?
Talk given at the celebrate Conference, Easter 2001 All of us wonder whether anything we can do will possibly make any difference in shaping events. As a young campaigner in central Liverpool I was struck by how often people would say to me: "what difference can I...
The Dignity of Man And The Threat of Eugenics
A Talk at Beaconsfield, March 2001 The greatest twentieth century prophet against eugenics is GK Chesterton, and earlier this evening I visited his grave here in Beconsfield. Let me begin by paying tribute to him. His lovely poem "A Beaconsfield Ballad" celebrated the...
Second Reading of the Patient (Assisted Dying) Bill
6th June 2003 For the full text of the debate, click here Lord Alton of Liverpool: My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Joffe, was good enough to say recently that we are usually on the same side of the argument. Although he knows that I am profoundly opposed to the...
Starvation of incapacitated patients
Universe Column by David Alton It was deeply paradoxical that in the very week a shepherd was sentenced to six months in prison for not providing enough food and water for his sheep, some parliamentarians were insisting that it is lawful and ethical to starve to death...
Formal response to the Lord Chancellor's Department's Consultation Paper, 'Making Decisions: Helping People Who Have Difficulty Deciding For Themselves'. July 2002
House of Lords London SW1A 0PW Virginia Gray Lord Chancellor's Department Family Policy Division 1 3rd Floor Southside 105 Victoria Street London SW1E 6QT 3rd July 2002 Dear Ms Gray, This letter constitutes my formal response to the Lord Chancellor's Department's...
Starvation of incapacitated patients
Universe Column by David Alton It was deeply paradoxical that in the very week a shepherd was sentenced to six months in prison for not providing enough food and water for his sheep, some parliamentarians were insisting that it is lawful and ethical to starve to death...
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About– Lord Alton of LiverpoolFor 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer.He began his career as a teacher and, in 1972, while still a student, he was elected to Liverpool City Council as Britain's...
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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