Eric Avebury

Monday, May 31, 2010

New atrocity in Lahore

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Unbelievably, terrorists have attacked the Jinnah hospital in Lahore, where the injured from Friday's massacres at the two Ahmadi mosque...

Memory Lane

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The new situation in Parliament reminded me of an occasion when I had spoken from the Conservative front bench, on March 26, 1970. It was in...

Who is the real Muslim

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Who is the real Muslim? The question this article puts to the conscience of the world answers itself, because while the worshippers still al...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

Telling editorial from the newspaper Dawn

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No condemnation Dawn Editorial Monday, 03 May, 2010 There is little doubt that there still exist, across Pakistan, mosques, schools of r...

Update on Lahore terror

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Up-date on the massacre of Ahmadi worshippers in Lahore Lahore , Rabwah; May 30, 2010 : The death toll from the terror attacks on the...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Lahore terror

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Dreadful news this morning about coordinate terrorist attacks on the two main Ahmadiyya Muslim mosques in Lahore, Pakistan. I wrote to Alas...

Report from KCH Vascular Surgery Department

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Department of Surgery King's College Hospital Vascular Surgery We received a referral...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Lindsay's birthday

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The State Opening of Parliament was on Tuesday, an occasion to which I never go because it involves dressing up in funny clothes and seeming...

Speech at Eritrea Independence Day celebration

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I congratulate the people of Eritrea most warmly on this 19 th Anniversary of their independence, for which they had fought so long and ha...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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Speaking at the meeting to celebrate Erirea's Independence Day at the Marble Arch Thistle Hotel, May 25
Sunday, May 23, 2010

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Delightful evening at home, with Trish Campbell
Saturday, May 22, 2010

This week

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Monday, a visit from old friends Akin Birdal and Akif Wan, with Ali Has, to discuss the current situation of the Kurds in Turkey, and parti...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Silbury Sun Roll

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This year's sun roll down the side of Silbury, courtesy Pete Glastonbury
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Gypsies and Travellers

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Here is the Conservative-LibDem coalition programme . I'm getting quite a few emails on Gypsy & Traveller education, so corresponden...

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A late post - with dear Margaret Wingfield's daughter and granddaughter at Nick Clegg's rally in Lewisham during the election campai...

Lunch at the George & Dragon, Downe, after the ceremony

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Eric Avebury
Eric Lubbock, Lord Avebury, b September 29, 1928. Upper Canada College & Balliol College Oxford (BA 1949, boxing blue); Welsh Guards (Second Lieut) 1949-51; Rolls Royce (aero-engine division) 1951-6; Production Engineering 1956-60; Charterhouse Group 1960-2. MP Orpington 1962-70; Liberal Chief Whip 1963-70; Chair, Parliamentary Civil Liberties Group 1964-70; Parliamentary Human Rights Group, 1976-1997; Traveller Law Reform Unit; Peru Support Group, 2003-; Cameroon Campaign Group 2003- Speaker's Conference on Electoral Law 1963-5; Select Committee on Science and Technology, 1968-70; Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life, 1974-6 President, Data Processing Management Association, 1972-5; Fluoridation Society, 1972-84; Conservation Society, 1973-83; London Bach Society, 1984-98; ACERT (Advisory Council for Education of Romanies & Travellers) 2001-;TAPOL (Indonesian human rights); Kurdish Human Rights Project; Patron, Angulimala (Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy), 1992-; Founder, Parliamentarians for East Timor, 1988; Vice-Chair, Parliamentary Group for Tibet; Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE); Fellow, British Computer Society (FBCS).
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