Last week saw the second anniversary of the seismic events which led to the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. It also saw the beginning of a second Egyptian revolution – which many fear could lead to a full scale civil war, plunging Egypt into the fratricide which...
North Korea Debated in Parliament – Peers Spotlight Security Huamn rights and Humanitarian Concerns
To view the debate on North Korea click here: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=12298 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uh05ubF56Q• https://www.davidalton.net/2013/01/11/the-prison-camps-of-north-korea/•...
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...
Maamtrasna Murders – Galway Commemoration and a new song marking the execution of Myles Joyce, an innocent man
See: http://www.beo.ie/alt-cuairt-stait.aspx A new song has een recorded to commemorate the Maamtrasna Murders: Listen here - http://anghaeltacht.net/Mam1882/filamhran.html Maamtrasna Murders - Galway Commemoration, December 2012 - 130 years after the execution of...
Obama Doesn't Have Four More Years To Combat Iranian and Other Forms of Inflammatory Extremism in the Middle East
Obama Doesn't Have Four More Years To Combat Iranian and Other Forms of Inflammatory extremism in the Middle East Proxies look to Saudi Arabia for support as Sunni fights Shia and minorities are killed in the crossfire. Iranian support for rocket launching militias...
Obama Doesn’t Have Four More Years To Combat Iranian and Other Forms of Inflammatory Extremism in the Middle East
Obama Doesn't Have Four More Years To Combat Iranian and Other Forms of Inflammatory extremism in the Middle East Proxies look to Saudi Arabia for support as Sunni fights Shia and minorities are killed in the crossfire. Iranian support for rocket launching militias...
Time to Challenge The Conspiracy of Silence About Abortion – why Jeremy Hunt Is Right
Time To Challenge The Conspiracy Of Silence About Abortion. Jeremy Hunt’s announcement that he would favour a reduction in the abortion upper time limit to twelve weeks was as welcome as it was brave. The reactions have ranged from the incandescent response of the...
U.S. National Catholic Register Interview with Joan Desmond
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/lord-altons-passions
Ken Hargreaves R.I.P.
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/blackburndarwenhyndburnribble/9800930.Fond_farewells_to_former_Hyndburn_MP_Ken_Hargreaves/ Ken Hargreaves MBE KSG 'Ken was one of those under-stated men, rare in politics, who had little time for vanity or ego but gave himself...
Yuet Ben Party Celebrating 40 Years Since Election To Liverpool City Council
Here is a link to a video clip of David's celebration at Yuet Ben: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6avFk6y2cGA Best wishes, Terry Lim www.yuetben.co.uk
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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New Opium War Targeting Democratic Countries – raised by Secretary Blinken with CCP leadership – and Minister says illicit labs in China have “been linked to more than 100 deaths in the UK during the last year, and we are taking action.”
Lord Sharpe of Epsom, the Home Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3921): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the production and distribution of illicit...
Yazidis on Sinjar: Government responds to questions asking what assessment they have made of the security situation in Sinjar and what discussions they have had, with the government of Turkey, in relation to Turkish military attacks on Sinjar.
Yazidis on Sinjar: Government responds to questions asking what assessment they have made of the security situation in Sinjar and what discussions they have had, with the government of Turkey, in relation to Turkish military attacks on Sinjar. As occurred with the...
Forty year campaign demanding justice for British servicemen used as guinea pigs in atomic tests in the 50s – with one Commons debate in the 80s taking place in the middle of the night, at 3.50 am. Today just 1500 of the 20,000 servicemen put in harms way are still alive. The Defence Minister, Earl Minto, deserves thanks for his straightforward reply in the Lords yesterday. However long it takes, injustices must be put right.
Throughout the 80s I campaigned for justice for British servicemen used as guinea pigs in atomic tests. On one occasion I initiated a debate in the Commons at 3.50 am in the middle of the night - a debate that the Government didn't want. Today just 1500 of the 20,000...