I watched some of the moving ceremonies on TV yesterday. Ithink it is important that we remember the horror of that attack and it should remind us that terrorism has enormous force today because of the nature of our interdependent world and the sheer power of modern technology. Can we ever hope to live without the…
Yesterday we had the second reading of the Scotland Bill. The Government has got into difficulties with the timetabling of business and to criticism from all parts of the House, only gave one day to the debate. The Bill has implications for the whole of the UK – not just Scotland and there were 36 members…
Returning to the House of Lords yesterday my holiday in Scotland seemed rather distant but during that holiday I took time out to go to the memorial at Cove near Poolewe where the arctic convoys left for Russia during the Second World War. http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsRussianConvoys.htm A couple of years ago I had visited a local museum and…
I was unable to attend the statement in the Lords yesterday. Initially the decision was to recall the commons but not the Lords. This changed on Wednesday but I was on a Scottish island visiting a neolithic tomb – no sign of riots there! My very brief thoughts on the rioting so far are that…
This is worth looking at if you are interested in attempts to combat extremism. http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/component/content/article/61-press-releases/841-before-a-after-the-norway-massacre-symbiosis-between-anti-muslim-extremists-and-islamist-extremists.html
