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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 09 May 2025
80th Anniversary of Victory in Europe and Victory over Japan

"My Lords, as we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, it is important to remember what it actually signifies. Every act of memorialisation or celebration is also a re-enactment. In remembering those who died, we should also remember their sacrifices and commit ourselves to …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 06 Mar 2025
International Women’s Day

"My Lords, it is a privilege and pleasure to participate in this debate. As is almost customary—it happens year after year—the debate has an overwhelmingly large number of female speakers; at a rough count, they are at least 24 out of 33. It goes to show how women continue to …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 13 Feb 2025
Holocaust Memorial Day

"My Lords, I want to share a few thoughts on the question of the Holocaust memorial. However, before we talk about it, we need to ask: why do we want to remember the Holocaust? What do we wish to remember? What is our assessment of it? These are the questions …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 13 Feb 2025
Holocaust Memorial Day

"These are the lessons we need to learn, and I hope that we will start learning them fast...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 12 Nov 2024
House of Lords Reform

"My Lords, when we embark on this momentous task of reforming the House of Lords, we ought to be very clear about what we are interested in. For me as a philosopher, the question is to be clear about the questions we want to ask and answer. I will propose …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 31 Oct 2024
Community and Voluntary Sector

"My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Drefelin, on initiating the debate so very well. Basically, we are concerned with exploring the relationship between civil society and the state. Civil society represents the idea of persuasion and the state represents the idea of compulsion. The question for …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 17 Oct 2024
Independent Schools: VAT

"My Lords, we need to look at this thing from a wider perspective. I suggest that we look at it in terms of what it is trying to achieve. Basically, it is concerned with achieving a certain measure of equality. We all recognise that our society is, rightly or wrongly, …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 21 May 2024
Higher Education (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)

"My Lords, I congratulate the Industry and Regulators Committee on its excellent report, which raises some important issues. Precisely because it ranges over a large number of issues, different people will pick up on different bits of it. I thought I would pick up on an aspect that may not …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 18 Apr 2024
NHS: Long-term Sustainability

"My Lords, the NHS is neither a leader nor a laggard, as shown in a comparative study of several countries. I think that broadly captures what many of us feel about the NHS. It embodies some fine values, such as equality of treatment, being free at the point of delivery …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Higher Education

"My Lords, I begin by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, for securing this debate and congratulate him on introducing it with such wisdom and insight.

We have been talking about universities; they are funny institutions that keep evolving over time. They began with Aristotle’s and Plato’s academies; in the …..."

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