Eric Avebury

On the back of this picture are the following two labels: Margaret Owen Lady Stanley of Alderley when an old woman B...

Not a very good photograph, but it was getting dark and the camera needed the flash. This is a watercolour by Blanche Airlie, nee Stanley,wh...

If UK voters had a say in the American elections, Obama would have much larger majority, to judge by the people I know When I wear my Obama ...

Resolution of the 9th Bangladesh-Conference, Hannover/Germany This Conference, held as part of the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue ...

Recommendations of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pneumococcal Disease (full report, www.appg-preventpneumo.org/download/appg_report.p...

Peccavi! I'm not keeping up with events on my blog, as Hugh reminded me this evening. Briefly: October 13, fielded a Parliamentary quest...

At SOAS this evening there was the premiere of Shahriar Kabir's film on the Bangladesh war crimes of 1971, after which there was a panel...

Fairly busy, first week back in Parliament. Monday I spoke in a debate on Pakistan, Wednesday, a question on Zimbabwe, Thursday, a question ...

There wasn't much to report last week, hence the gap in entries. Friday evening we attended a dinner to mark the centenary of engineerin...