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...
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...
John Bird – founder of The Big Issue – Click here to listen to his Roscoe Lecture given on Tuesday January 15th 2013
Roscoe Lecture by John Bird MBE, Founder and Editor in chief of The Big Issue. Click here to hear the lecture: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/roscoe/101110.htm The 109th Roscoe Lecture - “The Necessity of Poverty” - took place at Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall on Tuesday...
Parliamentary Debate on The Contribution of Elderly People To Society
Friday December 14th. 2.47 pm Lord Alton of Liverpool: My Lords, I begin, as others have done, by paying tribute to the most revered Primate, not simply for choosing this important topic for debate here in your Lordships’ House today but also to say how...
Oasis seminar at Westminster on the strengthening the dialogue and relationship between Muslims and Christians addressed by Cardinal Angelo Scola, Archbishop of Milan
http://www.oasiscenter.eu/en/ www.fondazioneoasis.org From the Oasis Foundation website: To speak of mestizaje in London is to describe a fact that is before the eyes of everybody: the most cosmopolitan city in the world in fact hosts all the ethnic groups, cultures...
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...
Yanbian University of Science and Technology Lecture, September 2012. Turning Dreams Into Realities.
“Turning Visions Into Reality – Dream, Plan, Achieve.” Yanbian University of Science and Technology, Jilin, September 2012. Delivered on the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the university at Yanji in North East China. https://www.davidalton.net/media/ -...
Don’t Cry For Me Sudan – the remarkable story of the Korean who went to work with lepers in Sudan – now on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34_No6iVIgg
Don't Cry For Me Sudan – the remarkable story of the Korean who went to work with lepers in Sudan – now on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34_No6iVIgg
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.
Social Media
Site Search
Recent Posts
In advance of my oral question, scheduled to be asked in the House of Lords on April 17th,3 Parliamentary Replies on Putin’s War in Ukraine – bringing to justice those responsible for the Crime of Aggression and Reparations – including £2.5 billion from the sale of Chelsea FC.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3194): Question:To ask His Majesty's Government, following the decision of the General Assembly of the United Nations...
Forget Me Not – – The United Kingdom All-Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea stands in solidarity with the Government of Korea in remembering the South Korean abductees, detained, and prisoners of war in North Korean gulags. Letter from Minister Kim Jung HO, Unification Minister, Seoul.
Lord (David) Alton, Fiona Bruce MP, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP (chairs and former Chair of APPG on North Korea) Lord (Sonny) Leong - Vice Chair with Catherine West MP, APPG on North Korea Forget-Me-Not Please Remember Me The United Kingdom All-Party Parliamentary...
Cyber-Security and UK Democracy. Lord Alton tells Parliament that U.K. must reduce dependency on the Chinese CCP and develop greater resilience in British manufacturing.
Following a statement made in the House of Commons by the Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Alton told Parliament that U.K. must urgently reduce its dependency on the Chinese CCP regime and develop greater resilience in British manufacturing, and also name the CCP for the...