Labour Peer
Entered the House of Lords on 23 May 2000
Positions held at time of appointment: Professor of Political Theory, Hull University (from Number 10 press release)
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 fight for their share of equality and that men are perfectly happy to allow them to do so. I will ask three...
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 that this debate was and is expected to answer. Is the Holocaust in some sense unique in human history, or have there not been cases of...
These are the lessons we need to learn, and I hope that we will start learning them fast.
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