Representative
Member of the House of Lords
Labour
House of Lords
GB - SW1A 0PW - London
United Kingdom
Working language: English
29/01/2025 | 18:52:43 Thank you, President. And greetings to colleagues and friends. I note from the title of this debate that it states that it is one of the answers rather than the total solution, although many people have spoken as if this was the only way of dealing with an ageing population. And let's bear that in mind. But secondly, I am, of course, demographically aged myself, and hope that gives me authority to speak on this matter right now. Just earlier today, I chaired the meeting of the Committee on... 29/01/2025 | 11:18:16 Madam President, friends and colleagues, One of the main streams of historiography right now is called post-colonial history, and it examines the way that countries, often represented in this very hemicycle, manage the affairs of countries far away. If you asked historians, even historians, what was the first significant defeat of NAPOLEON, for example, they might debate between the withdrawal from Moscow in 1812 or the defeat at Waterloo in 1815. Few of them would talk about 1 January 1804... 28/01/2025 | 18:07:52 Thank you, President, and thank you, colleagues, for the impressive speeches that have been made. I don't need to repeat the statistics. They've been made and made again. Nor do I need, really, to protect Hamas from proper criticism. What happened on October 7 was horrendous, and it needs constantly to be in our minds. The way that Hamas has manipulated aspects of the case also needs to be recognised and kept in the front of our minds. But we're not debating that now. We're debating the fact... 04/10/2024 | 10:27:04 Is it working? Yes. Good. Thank you, President and colleagues, I would like to thank the rapporteur and his Committee for a splendid piece of work. And perhaps add to that for his introduction to the debate today, which has laid the issues before us in a very clear way. Members may wonder what an old man like me can contribute to a subject where emerging technology is very much in our focus. And it's a fair question since I started my intellectual life before the internet was invented. It... 01/10/2024 | 10:30:34 Mister President and colleagues, I'm delighted to have read this report and to see the challenge that it poses for all of us, even those who have developed legislation in their own constituencies, to deal with these very questions. I had a humble role in our own parliament in shaping a Data Processing Act where the question of the freedom of information was key and also about to come into practice and already passed is an Online Safety Act that will have picked up some of the questions that...
04/11/2021 | Doc. 15396 | Report 70th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention: the Council of Europe and the international protection of refugees
15/01/2025 | Doc. 16095 | Motion for a resolution The role of diasporas and migrants in building social cohesion and progress 03/10/2024 | Doc. 16056 | Motion for a resolution Frontline States: the role of the Council of Europe in implementing the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum 02/07/2024 | Doc. 15962 | Written declaration Appeal to the United States Congress 02/07/2024 | Doc. 15980 | Written declaration Implement urgently the interim measure of the European Court of Human Rights and release Gubad Ibadoghlu and other political prisoners in Azerbaijan 24/04/2024 | Doc. 15914 | Written declaration Israel Gaza conflict
29/01/2025 | Doc. 16090, vote on the draft text for recommendation Multiperspectivity in remembrance and history education for democratic citizenship 29/01/2025 | Doc. 16090, vote on the draft text for resolution Multiperspectivity in remembrance and history education for democratic citizenship 29/01/2025 | Doc. 16104, vote on the draft text for resolution Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of Georgia 29/01/2025 | Doc. 16072, vote on the draft text for resolution Immigration, one of the answers to Europe's demographic ageing 28/01/2025 | Doc. 16093, vote on the draft text for resolution The absolute and urgent need to end the humanitarian crisis for women, children and the hostages in Gaza