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Regarding the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Speeches
|This is the original, longer, version of a speech I was due to give in the House of Lords on 1 May 2025 but which had to be redacted due to time constraints. The speech given is described in Hansard My Lords, It is with a heavy heart that I rise to speak today. Heavy, because the legislation before us cuts to the very fabric of our democratic society — a society built on freedom of thought, parental responsibility, and the rights of citizens not to be monitored by an overreaching state. Our forebears fought two world wars, at unimaginable cost, to secure the freedoms we now risk so casually throwing away. They fought to defeat totalitarian ideologies that sought to control not only public life but private conscience — and, crucially, the upbringing of the next generation. They knew, as we should know, that the surest route to tyranny is to hand the state unchecked power over the education of children. It is a ...
Read more Long-duration Energy Storage (Science and Technology Committee Report)
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|My Lords, I extend my gratitude to the noble Baroness, Lady Brown, for initiating this crucial debate. I too am very much looking forward to the maiden speech by the ...
Decoding Pareto: How Agent-Based Technology Can Unveil New Perspectives and Solutions on Issues such as Inequality
Long reads
|In a world grappling with escalating multiple complex challenges, understanding their dynamics and seeking effective remedies in a more granular way is more crucial than ever if we ever want ...
Pupil Mental Health, Well-being and Development
Speeches
|My Lords, I extend my gratitude to the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, for initiating this vital debate, and declare my interests as a parent of home-educated and state-educated children and ...