John Lewis-Stempel is right to warn, in this interesting article from Unherd, that factory farms are ticking time-bombs of zoonotic disease — those which leap from animals to humans — and petri-dishes of bacterial infections. The massive use of antibiotics to enable...
In the House of Lords today I challenged the recent Hillsborough decision:Even before the Hillsborough disaster on 15 April 1989 I had written to the Government questioning the safety of the ground, and with the deaths of Liverpool constituents, including a child –...
It is because of stories like this one about Yerzhan Kurman in today’s Telegraph- electrocuted with cattle prods, forced to sing Communist Party songs, and turned into slave labour - that tomorrow I am introducing my Private Members’ Bill on supply chain...
Parliamentary Meeting: UN Special Rapporteur on Eritrea - Tuesday June 15th – 4pm-5pm Tomorrow the APPG on Eritrea will hear the UN Special Rapporteur, Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, discuss human rights concerns in Eritrea. Mr Babiker will discuss abuses, Eritrea’s role...