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HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Impact on Human Relationships and SocietyIt is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Shinkwin, with his thoughtful and perceptive comments on our society. I have now been in the House of Lords for just over 30…05 Jun 2026HANSARDAI Regulation BillMy Lords, my first duty is to thank the noble Lord, Lord Holmes, for that introduction. He and I are members of the Lords Communications and Digital Committee. We have both…04 Jun 2026HANSARDYouth OffendingMy Lords, I do not think that anybody doubts the Minister’s sincerity, but she should have a little tingle between the shoulder blades when somebody such as the noble Lord, Lord…21 May 2026HANSARDYouth JusticeMy Lords, the YJB is one of the great successes of government over the last 25 years and a great credit to those involved. I do not think the time is wrong for a thorough review…20 May 2026HANSARDMedia Literacy (Communications and Digital Committee Report)My Lords, this has been an encouraging debate, although the Government’s response to our report was a little last-minute, as has been said. My noble friend Lord Storey did not…16 Mar 2026HANSARDBetter Prisons: Less Crime (Justice and Home Affairs Committee Report)My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Gloucester. I commend the work of the chaplaincy service in prisons. I also welcome this debate,…12 Feb 2026HANSARDBetter Prisons: Less Crime (Justice and Home Affairs Committee Report)That came out wrong. When he referred to the Government’s response to the White Paper, he also reminded me of my old friend, Fred Peart. Fred was Leader of the House a long time…12 Feb 2026HANSARDBroadcasting: Recent DevelopmentsMy Lords, I suppose the usual sources will say, “Well, this is the House of Lords typically mumbling out its old prejudices”, but it has been very encouraging for me, as a…08 Jan 2026HANSARDParthenon Sculptures: ReturnMy Lords—16 Jul 2025HANSARDParthenon Sculptures: ReturnMy Lords, the Minister has been rolling out excuses for no action on the Parthenon sculptures that have been used by Ministers of all parties for the last 50 years, at least to my…16 Jul 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: News MediaMy Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the Select Committee on Communications and Digital, under the chair, the noble Baroness, Lady Keeley. I am as keen to see…07 Jul 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: News MediaDo noble Lords not want to hear it? “A hormonal collapse from another femme failure who can’t cope when the going gets tough. A woman who wilts like a stick of damp rhubarb at the…07 Jul 2025HANSARDMusic Festivals: Hate SpeechMy Lords, I draw the Minister’s attention, and indeed that of the noble Lord, Lord Bellingham, to the article by Hugo Rifkind in the Times yesterday. Hugo Rifkind actually spent…03 Jul 2025HANSARDAI and Creative Technologies (Communications and Digital Committee Report)My Lords, I hope we will see the noble Lord, Lord Hamilton, here for the wind-up, because there is a wicked old habit in the House of Commons of intervening very early in a debate…13 Jun 2025HANSARDThe Future of News (Communications and Digital Committee Report)My Lords. I feel as if I am also making a maiden speech, in that it is some four months since I have been in this House while doctors have been testing me for various ailments.…25 Apr 2025HANSARDOlympic and Paralympic Games: Team GBMy Lords, the Minister should be very grateful to her father: being thrown in at the deep end is very good training for ministerial life. Has she thought that this might also be a…04 Nov 2024HANSARDInternational EngagementsMy Lords, during many years, on all sides of the House, there was a campaign for 0.7% of GNI on overseas aid, not just as a number but as a direction of travel. No one doubts the…31 Oct 2024HANSARDPrison CapacitiesMy Lords, by this time, the Minister must be thinking that this is going to be an easy job. I am afraid he has to learn, if he has not learned already, that the House of Lords is…12 Sept 2024HANSARDHouse of Lords: CompositionMy Lords, one of the benefits of this House is that some of us have been around a long time. I was much involved in the decision 25 years ago. The truth was that Viscount…05 Sept 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, I give congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Goodman of Wycombe, on his maiden speech, and to what is now a very formidable Front Bench, with the noble Lords, Lord…24 Jul 2024