http://thesteepletimes.com/lord-alton-whats-on-your-mantelpiece/
What’s On Your Mantelpiece? – response to questions from The Steeple Times
http://thesteepletimes.com/lord-alton-whats-on-your-mantelpiece/
U.S. National Catholic Register Interview with Joan Desmond
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/lord-altons-passions
Yuet Ben Party Celebrating 40 Years Since Election To Liverpool City Council
Here is a link to a video clip of David's celebration at Yuet Ben: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6avFk6y2cGA Best wishes, Terry Lim www.yuetben.co.uk
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...
Ten Questions Interview
http://www.christian.co.uk/10-questions-for-lord-alton-p1310
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...
"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...
Memorabilia…article for "Total Politics"
Memorabilia: article for Total Politics David Alton My three items of political memorabilia are linked to Liverpool. The portrait is of William Roscoe, elected to the Commons in 1807 as a Liverpool Member – serving for just three months. During that Session William...
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...
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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Letter from the Lord (David) Alton and Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, co chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, to Lord (David) Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, about the CCP’s forced repatriation of North Korean refugees in breach of both the 1951 Refugee Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
£1 Trillion – Raised In Parliament Today. The Cost of Reparations In Ukraine and Bringing To Justice Those Responsible.
https://youtu.be/xlEfrgwELvc Alongside the fatalities, injuries and chronic suffering and misery which Putin’s war has brought to Ukraine, the economic cost of rebuilding and remedying war damage is now estimated to be close to £1 trillion. Yesterday David...
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Stop Perpetrators Getting Away With Genocide - Public Letter sent to the UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24. The letter was published this morning, 17 April 2024, 06:00 am UK time. 'First of its kind': Prominent lawyers...