Eric Avebury

Friday, October 30, 2015

Saudi Arabia in Yemen: humanitarian disaster and possible war crime

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Yemen Question 11.18 am Asked by  Lord Avebury To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the Saudi-led c...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Cardiology October 14

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Dept of Cardiology, King’s College Hospital, 14 October 2015 This 87-year-old gentleman was reviewed today in Professor McCarthy’s cli...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

Miscarriage of justice

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I tweeted this link on October 10 to a powerful article about the imminent execution of  former Bangladesh Nationalist Party Leader Salaudd...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Sugar tax

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The Times backs NHS England's call for a sugar tax  http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article4593962.ece It would provide a b...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Tax credits: LibDem peers will try to stop Cameron's attack on the poor

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Liberal Democrats have tabled a motion in the Lords to scrap Cameron's tax credit plans which would leave three million low income p...

Sugar tax

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Public Health England says a sugar tax and other measures to reduce our consumption of sugar would reduce the nation's health bill by a...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Haematology

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Blood test 08.00, haematology appointment 10.00, saw the consultant 10.50. Blood results last 9 readings ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

More bad news for the planet, and for UK jobs

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Friends of the Earth say hundred of solar firms will probably go bankrupt and tens of thousands of jobs may be lost http://ind.pn/1NSJ49N ...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Tory Government axes green schemes

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In their latest move away from green policies, the Government have cut solar subsidies by 87% see http://bit.ly/1MOy5wt.  Four solar panel ...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Incurable cancer

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Sophie Sabbage The Cancer Whisperer gets half a page in The Observer for her rejection of the idea of 'battling cancer', as if it ...

Last view before the leaves begin to fall

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Bed time with Stripeys the cat

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Here's a little video of the same.
Saturday, October 17, 2015

Meeting of the Chagos All-Party Parliamentary Group October 14

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Those present:  Lord Avebury (Vice-Chairman), Lord Luce, Lord Ramsbotham (Vice-Chairman), Baroness Whitaker (Vice-Chairman), Alan Bro...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain

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Well done Michael Gove for persuading Prime Minister David Cameron to ditch the £5.9 million contract to provide training for Saudi Arabia ...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Hurrah for Robert Fisk

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Robert Fisk is the first journalist, as far as I'm aware, to label Saudi Arabia for its scandalous destruction of Islamic world heritag...
Friday, October 09, 2015

Olivia's university graduation, with Diana and Maurice

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Wednesday, October 07, 2015

More hospital visits

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Yesterday to Guy's ENT to deal with persistent nosebleeds The consultant Dr L prescribed topical application of  one antibiotic four ti...
Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Syria

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There's a lot of hysteria in NATO foreign ministries and media about Russian incursions into Turkish air space, but Turkey's policy...
Monday, October 05, 2015

Haematology

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We spent from 11.00 to 20.00 in the Haematology day care centre at King's, where there were too many patients for the staff to cope. Bl...
Thursday, October 01, 2015

Rubab

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We had a lovely visit from Rubab (director of the International Imam Hussain Council) yesterday,  with her husband and her little boy, an...
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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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