Rebecca Tinsley challenges Saudi Arabia to finally end the export of hatred through school text books. The Saudi and UK Governments would do well to read this sobering assessment of how vast sums of money have been invested in poisoning minds and promoting hatred of...
A Sword Over the Nile: A Brief History of the Copts Under Islamic Rule, by Adel Guindy – a timely and authoritative account of the story of the Copts. It deserves to be widely read.
A Sword Over the Nile: A Brief History of the Copts Under Islamic Rule, by Adel Guindy (Austin Macauley, NY, June 2020). A Sword Over The Nile. Table of Contents-2 With Egypt’s Copts targeted as part of a bloody and...
Zdenka Fantlova's The Tin Ring and Vasily Grossman's The Road – remembering the realities of the Holocaust.
Before attending a performance of the powerful drama, The Tin Ring, brilliantly brought to life by Jane Arnfield in the intimacy of Mr.Speaker's House at Westminster, I hadn't known that Zdenka Fantlova would be in the audience. It would be impossible not to be...
Zdenka Fantlova’s The Tin Ring and Vasily Grossman’s The Road – remembering the realities of the Holocaust.
Before attending a performance of the powerful drama, The Tin Ring, brilliantly brought to life by Jane Arnfield in the intimacy of Mr.Speaker's House at Westminster, I hadn't known that Zdenka Fantlova would be in the audience. It would be impossible not to be...
Building Bridges – Links to Interviews, North Korea Freedom Week, Ooberfuse, and Ann Shin's "The Defector" shown in the British Parliament – and mark the anniversaries of the Korean War
Tuesday June 25th, 2013 marks the anniversary of the outbreak, in 1950, of the Korean War. On July 27, it will be the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement, signed in 1953. Over those three bloody years around three million people were killed –...
Building Bridges – Links to Interviews, North Korea Freedom Week, Ooberfuse, and Ann Shin’s “The Defector” shown in the British Parliament – and mark the anniversaries of the Korean War
Tuesday June 25th, 2013 marks the anniversary of the outbreak, in 1950, of the Korean War. On July 27, it will be the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement, signed in 1953. Over those three bloody years around three million people were killed –...
North Korea Freedom Week – Hear Radio Merseyside interview on launch of Building Bridges www.bbc.co.uk/radiomerseyside/programmes/a-z/by/d/current
www.bbc.co.uk/radiomerseyside/programmes/a-z/by/d/current Radio Merseyside interview about Building Bridges. David Alton War Cry
Claire Tomalin's Roscoe Lecture Celebrating The Bicentenary of Charles Dickens
An audio download of Claire Tomalin's brilliant lecture can be found at: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/roscoe/101110.htm https://www.davidalton.net/2012/02/17/dickens-faith-and-fiction/ October 31st 2012 It is especially appropriate that Ms.Tomalin should deliver this Roscoe...
Claire Tomalin’s Roscoe Lecture Celebrating The Bicentenary of Charles Dickens
An audio download of Claire Tomalin's brilliant lecture can be found at: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/roscoe/101110.htm https://www.davidalton.net/2012/02/17/dickens-faith-and-fiction/ October 31st 2012 It is especially appropriate that Ms.Tomalin should deliver this Roscoe...
What Kind of Country?
What Kind of Country David Alton David Alton has attracted national attention with his private member's Bill to halt late abortions. In What kind of country? he takes a clear, uncompromising look at the state of Britain in Mrs Thatcher's third term. He examines a...
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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UK aid supporting minorities in Pakistan – short debate House of Lords 25th April 2024. Full Text of Speeches and Recording of Debate
Lords Grand CommitteeThursday 25 April 2024 Full debate: https://youtu.be/VMSZpOq_oyk Lord Alton of Liverpool:I am grateful to all noble lords participating in today’s short debate about ways in which UK development aid to Pakistan- rising from £41.5 million this...
Letter to the Prime Minister calling for Recognition of the Armenian Genocide
The Right Honourable Rishi Sunak MPPrime Minister10 Downing StreetLondonSW1A 2AAApril 24, 2024 Dear Prime Minister,I am writing to you on the occasion of the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. On April24th, Armenians worldwide commemorate this day, which has...
At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? Essay for GIS Reports April 19th 2024.
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/crossroads-isolationism-leadership At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? LORD DAVID ALTON OF LIVERPOOL READING TIME: 16 MIN History teaches us that isolationism leads to disaster. Will the...