2015: Christians, Christmas, and The Growing Wave of Intolerance.... Last year, the Sultan of Brunei introduced Sharia criminal law, which allows for punishments including stoning, whipping and amputation. This year, following in the footsteps of Lenin and...
Archive 2 – more indexed archived speeches and articles.
Also see: https://www.davidalton.net/2014/07/31/archive-indexed-miscellaneous-articles-and-columns/ Speech on the BBC’s Role in Society – 2003 A speech on the withdrawal of food and fluids from patients 2003 Coercive Population Control in China – 2001 Speech by Lord...
Archive – indexed miscellaneous articles and columns
Miscellaneous archived columns on the following subjects: Abortion and the right to know Paying a price for courage Politicians and how they vote on ethical issues 30 years of abortion in the UK Abortion and the possible link with breast cancer Joanna Jepson’s fight...
Walking Cornwall’s Saints’ Way – Forth an Syns – Following The Footsteps of The Celtic Saints
Encouragingly, the Angelus Bell was tolling at St. Petroc’s, the parish church of Padstow, as I and two companions set off to walk Cornwall’s Saints’ Way – Forth an Syns in the Cornish. Stretching over a distance of 30 miles, the Saints’ Way takes...
Charities, SRI, and Making Change – 2004
When most charities were formed they had as a basic mandate the desire to bring about change – so shouldn’t they be using their leverage to challenge and to change? Yet, there is always a nervousness that by collaborating with commercial interests you can become...
Kony 2012 – House of Lords debate on March 26th about the LRA and Kony.
Kony 2012 ( http://www.youtube.com/user/invisiblechildreninc?feature=watch )is a viral video watched on the internet by more than 100 million people worldwide. Made by an American advocacy group, Invisible Children, it tells the story of the mass murderer and child...
Dickens – Faith and Fiction
In this bicentenary year of his birth the best new biography of the life of Charles Dickens life is by Claire Tomalin – and later in the year she will deliver one of my Roscoe Lectures in Liverpool to celebrate the bicentenary...
Welcome Back Mr.Chips
The 1939 film “Goodbye, Mr. Chips”, remade in 1969, was based on the novel of the same name by James Hilton. It immortalised the remarkable but fictional teaching career of Charles Edward Chipping, who, in 1870, took up his position at Brookfield School. In 1914 Chips...
Report on the first International Conference to be held at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology and How the University Came Into Being
Pyongyang’s First International Conference on Science and Technology: and the remarkable story of Dr.James Kim and the Genesis of PUST. October 2011. We were an unlikely cast - a United States astronaut who had been four times in Space; a Nobel Laureate, who had...
Anniversary of Pope Benedict State Visit – Christian Heritage Centre for Britain?
One year ago, at Westminster, Pope Benedict told English Catholics not to lose their identity; not to forget their Christian roots; to remember who they are; to pass on their beliefs to their children and to share their love of their Faith with their countrymen. Some...
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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...