Interview on the Increasing Poverty Gap In Britain: www.premier.org.uk/hearttoheart See also Archbishop Vincent Nichols: <a href="http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22745"> CSAN Conference, London Keynote Speech, 12 June 2013 David Alton: ...
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 –...
More than 80 Churchgoers were murdered in Pakistan -100,000 Christians killed each year – An Appeal for Religious Freedom and Toleration.
Report of A Lecture Given to The Disraeli Society at Christ Church, the University of Oxford, October 2013. http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/opinion/columns/10766682.YOURS_FAITHFULLY__Let___s_be_tolerant_of_other_people___s_beliefs/ At the very moment when the murder...
Mesothelioma – 56,000 more deaths predicted – More Research Needed To Find A Cure – Debate in Parliament.
Mesothelioma Bill [HL] Second Reading 8.44 pm May 20th 2013. Lord Alton of Liverpool: My Lords, in his opening speech, the Minister benchmarked our knowledge of mesothelioma to 1965. In that year, the Sunday Times reported on how an epidemiological investigation by...
North Korea Freedom Week – New book was launched at House of Lords on May 21st and published on May 24th
Listen to Vanish The Night by Ooberfuse (featuring the voice of Shin Dong Hyok who was born in Camp 14 and witnessed the execution of his mother and brothers): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be7WTX_z_E8&feature=share See also:...
Margaret Thatcher
My first encounter with Margaret Thatcher was just a few days before she won the 1979 vote of no confidence - the vote which brought down Jim Callaghan's government and precipitated the 1979 General Election. She was in Liverpool, campaigning in the Liverpool Edge...
Threat to Disabled People's Motability Support Challenged In Parliament along with PIP Fiasco
Oral Question on Personal Independence Payments - June 10th 2015 Lord Alton of Liverpool Crossbench My Lords, the Minister will recall that, during the debates on personal independence payments, warnings were expressed from all sides of your Lordships’ House about the...
Threat to Disabled People’s Motability Support Challenged In Parliament along with PIP Fiasco
Oral Question on Personal Independence Payments - June 10th 2015 Lord Alton of Liverpool Crossbench My Lords, the Minister will recall that, during the debates on personal independence payments, warnings were expressed from all sides of your Lordships’ House about the...
Alexander Ogorodnikov in London for the launch of his biography, The Eternal Dissident.
Alexander Ogorodnikov in London for the launch of his biography, The Eternal Dissident. The foreword by David Alton commends a book which reminds us of the suffering endured in the Soviet Union's gulags - and which is still endured today in the gulags of countries...
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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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...
Letter from the Lord (David) Alton and Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, co chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, to Lord (David) Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, about the CCP’s forced repatriation of North Korean refugees in breach of both the 1951 Refugee Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
£1 Trillion – Raised In Parliament Today. The Cost of Reparations In Ukraine and Bringing To Justice Those Responsible.
https://youtu.be/xlEfrgwELvc Alongside the fatalities, injuries and chronic suffering and misery which Putin’s war has brought to Ukraine, the economic cost of rebuilding and remedying war damage is now estimated to be close to £1 trillion. Yesterday David...