A group of young Koreans have started a campaign to persuade the BBC World Service to broadcast to the Korean peninsula. They have a Facebook page to which anyone wishing to support their campaign can link: http://www.facebook.com/BBCforKorea This link takes you to a...
Egypt – A Second Revolution?
Last week saw the second anniversary of the seismic events which led to the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. It also saw the beginning of a second Egyptian revolution – which many fear could lead to a full scale civil war, plunging Egypt into the fratricide which...
Food Bank Britain, Sharp Elbowed Britain, and Devil Take the Hindmost Britain is not the kind of country of which any of us can be proud
Food Bank Britain, sharp elbowed Britain, and Devil take the Hindmost Britain is not the kind of country of which any of us can be proud Today's Lords debates - Thursday 17 January 2013 Taxation: FamiliesMotion to Take Note 11.41 am Moved by Baroness Hollis of Heigham...
Scroungers Versus Strivers – and a wholly unacceptable decision to hit disabled people's mobility allowances.
Sarah Tether will have made few friends among some of her former Government colleagues by voting against the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill – but she was courageous and right to do so. She was also right in saying that it is the politics of the playground to paint a...
Scroungers Versus Strivers – and a wholly unacceptable decision to hit disabled people’s mobility allowances.
Sarah Tether will have made few friends among some of her former Government colleagues by voting against the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill – but she was courageous and right to do so. She was also right in saying that it is the politics of the playground to paint a...
The Hobbit and Life of Pi
There have been some wonderful movies showing over Christmas and the New Year. Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, based on Yann Martel’s novel of the same name, is spell bindingly good. The story revolves around a 16-year old Indian boy called Piscine Molitor, "Pi" Patel, who...
Maamtrasna Murders – Galway Commemoration and a new song marking the execution of Myles Joyce, an innocent man
See: http://www.beo.ie/alt-cuairt-stait.aspx A new song has een recorded to commemorate the Maamtrasna Murders: Listen here - http://anghaeltacht.net/Mam1882/filamhran.html Maamtrasna Murders - Galway Commemoration, December 2012 - 130 years after the execution of...
It's A Girl – Premiered at the British Parliament – exposing the scandal of gendercide
Visit "It's A Girl" website to see extracts of the film: http://www.itsagirlmovie.com/ What You Can Do - www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=21344 SPEECH BY LORD ALTON ON “IT’S A GIRL” PRESENTATION HOUSE OF LORDS 30TH...
It’s A Girl – Premiered at the British Parliament – exposing the scandal of gendercide
Visit "It's A Girl" website to see extracts of the film: http://www.itsagirlmovie.com/ What You Can Do - www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=21344 SPEECH BY LORD ALTON ON “IT’S A GIRL” PRESENTATION HOUSE OF LORDS 30TH...
Hobbits' Second Breakfasts In Lancashire – and Tolkien's Links With Lancashire and His Faith
Click below for a short Granada Television report on St.Mary's Hall children at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire enjoying a second Hobbits' breakfast - at the place where Tolkien wrote some of The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings - and where two of his sons lived or...
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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Replies to Parliamentary Questions on the number of people who are dying of hunger or who are food insecure in Sudan; how quickly the UK decision to increase humanitarian aid for war victims in Sudan will be made available; what it will be used for; and how it will be deployed; and the impact of the war in Sudan on South Sudan, including (1) the numbers of displaced people and refugees, and (2) the impact on its economy caused by the loss of receipts from the export of oil
Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3877): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of people...
Meeting in Parliament to highlight the malign effects of Hong Kong’s Article 23 on human rights; to examine its impact on media freedom, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd; to express solidarity with Jimmy Lai and 1841 other imprisoned pro democracy advocates; and to consider how Hong Kong’s Security Laws impact on civil society, the diaspora and contribute to transnational repression. Contributions from Benedict Rogers, Steve Vines, Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, and Carmen Lau. The banning of a Simpsons episode about the Tiananmen Square massacre “Nothing Happened Here” cited as an example of the suppression of truth.
Lord Alton of Liverpool (David Alton) as a Patron of Hong Kong Watch today chaired a meeting in Parliament to highlight the malign effects of Hong Kong's Article 23 on human rights. It examined the impact on media freedom, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May...
British universities and Chinese money
Today I pressed Ministers to reduce the reliance of British universities on Chinese money. This is compromising national security and also compromising academic freedom – as the case of Professor Michelle Shipworth, which I raised, has demonstrated. 30th April...