The Cross And The Third Reich – Catholic Resistance In The Nazi Era” by Dr.John Frain by David Alton “The Cross And The Third Reich – Catholic Resistance In The Nazi Era”by Dr.John Frain In his concluding remarks at the end of this admirable book (published by Family...
March Till They Die – North Korea's Prison Camps – http://www.channel4.com/news/the-3-000-mile-exit-route-from-north-korea
March Till They Die: see Channel 4 Report, June 2011, - 3,000 mile exit from North Korea. The dramatic release from North Korea of two American journalists was a timely reminder that the challenge posed by North Korea has not gone away. Laura Ling and Euna Lee were...
Future Tense – A Must Read Book by The Chief Rabbi
Future Tense - A Must Read Book by The Chief Rabbi by David Alton Twenty years ago a young man I knew died of a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. A flat mate found him dead on the kitchen floor. There had been no prior warning, no early intimation of illness; all who knew...
The West of Ireland – The Maamtrasna Murders 3.
On the 15th of December 1882 whilst, poignantly, Bridget Joyce was giving birth to their daughter, her husband Myles was facing William Marwood, the Public Executioner for Great Britain and Ireland. As he was taken to his death at the gallows in Galway Prison – held...
The West of Ireland Maamtrasna Murders. 2
When the Maamtrasna murders took place in 1882, the little settlement of Maamtrasna was situated in County Galway. Here, about 250 families scratched a living from the land, labouring in the shadow of Maamtrasna Mountain. In 1898, a reconfiguration of county...
The West of Ireland Maamtrasna Murders 1.
In the 1950s the Princess Maud and Hibernia were two of the ferries which plied their way between Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire. I travelled on them several times as a youngster when my mother took me back to Mayo to see her people. Memories of long, exhausting,...
That hideous Strength
Universe Column, August 19th 2007 The climax of C.S.Lewis's brilliant novel "That Hideous Strength" takes place at a banquet held in Belbury. For readers unfamiliar with the story, Belbury is the centre of operations for the not-so-nice National Institute for...
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Some Books Worth Reading.... https://www.davidalton.net/category/books-to-read/ No Greatness Without Goodness by Randy Lewis I would really recommend No Greatness Without Goodness by Randy Lewis. He was Senior Vice...
Are R. H. Benson's predictions coming true?
Universe Column for May 28th 2006 by David Alton With Parliament devoting so much of its time to consideration of the legalising of euthanasia, it might be a good moment re-visit the writer, R. H. Benson – some of whose writings were long ago published by this...
Dorothy L. Sayers
Universe Column for December 24th 2006 by David Alton Don’t you groan when you hear well meaning people say that “all religions are the same.”? A recent survey of Catholic children in Australian produced an overwhelming number of young people who sat they hold that...
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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Statement by the All-Part Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities, on April 16th – the anniversary of Iqbal Masih’s murder
Statement by the All-Part Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities, on the anniversary of Iqbal Masih’s murder See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW15xzLt2VI [London, 16 April 2024] Today, the APPG for Pakistani Minorities, a cross-party parliamentary...
Questions on the warning by Médecins Sans Frontières of a critical vaccine shortage in Darfur; prediction by UNICEF’s that 700,000 Sudanese children will suffer severe malnutrition; UNICEF’s report that the 2023–24 El Niño phenomenon has led to the closure of schools in South Sudan; and the effect of the prolonged heatwave and drought on eastern and southern Africa.
Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3650): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the warning by...
Despite the suppression of the rights of girls and women in Afghanistan the Government admits it “has not introduced any Global Human Rights sanctions against the Taliban since they took power in 2021.” Parliament needs to assert oversight of the random and opaque process of Magnitsky Sanctions.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3308): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government how many Taliban leaders they have...