Universe Column for August 20th 2006 by David Alton The chance to explore other people’s bookshelves is one of the additional delights of renting a holiday cottage in some out of the way place. People’s books tell you a lot about them – as does the total absence of...
Predicting the future
Universe Column for January 16th 2005 by David Alton Predicting the future can be a fool’s game. But in contrast to the fooleries of the astrologers and clairvoyants we have been blessed by a whole canon of futuristic literature. Some great writers have prophetically...
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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Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL4060): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions the Foreign Secretary has...
Defence Personnel Data Breach and Harvesting of Personal Data for the Subversion of Democratic Elections Raised In Parliament
Defence Personnel Data Breach https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2024-05-08/debates/27C3FAE1-7087-4D8C-A2D4-C5F31F23FD59/DefencePersonnelDataBreach Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for repeating the Secretary of State’s Statement....
A new Opium War, on British streets: Government responds to illicit Chinese pharmaceutical and chemical companies producing and smuggling illegal drugs into the UK and the use of the internet to promote sales of opioids hundreds of times stronger than heroin, which are flooding western countries, and have been responsible over the past year for 100 British deaths.
A new Opium War, on British streets: Government responds to illicit Chinese pharmaceutical and chemical companies producing and smuggling illegal drugs into the UK and the use of the internet to promote sales of opioids hundreds of times stronger than heroin, which...