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HANSARDOnline Safety BillDoes the noble Lord accept that that is already a possibility? You can bring an action in contract law against them on the grounds that it is an unfair contract. This could happen…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords—12 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I realise that I am something of a fish out of water in this House, as I was in Committee, on the Bill, which is fundamentally flawed in a number of respects, including…12 Jul 2023HANSARDRail Ticket OfficesMy Lords, is my noble friend aware that—12 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, before my noble friend sits down, perhaps I could seek a point of clarification. I think I heard him say, at the beginning of his response to this short debate, that…10 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI understand the point the noble Lord is making but, if he were thrown out, sacked or treated in some other way that was incompatible with his rights to freedom of expression…10 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, my noble friend on the Front Bench said at various points when we were in Committee that the Bill struck an appropriate balance between protecting the rights of children…10 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister for the meeting that he arranged with me and the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley, on Monday of this week. Although we…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI take this opportunity to ask my noble friend the Minister a question; I want some clarity about this. Would an abusive comment about a particular religion—let us say a religion…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy noble friend seemed to confirm what I said. If I wish to be abusive—in fact, I do wish to be abusive—about the Carthaginian religious practice of sacrificing babies to Moloch,…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I have a comment about Amendment 174 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron. I have no objection to the insertion of subsection (9B), but I am concerned about…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, Amendments 29 and 30 stand in my name. I fully appreciated, as I prepared my thoughts ahead of this short speech, that a large part of what I was going to say might be…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillWith respect, it does not say “directed at children”. Of course, I am safe in expressing that abuse in this forum, but if I were to do it, it came to the attention of children and…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, these words have obviously appeared in the Bill in one of those unverified sections; I have clicked the wrong button, so I cannot see them. Where does it say in…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I speak to Amendments 56, 58, 63 and 183 in my name in this group. I have some complex arguments to make, but time is pressing, so I shall attempt to do so as briefly as…06 Jul 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendments 115 and 117 to 125 in this group, all standing in my name. They have a similar approach to that set out by the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton,…03 Jul 2023HANSARDCorporate Profits: InflationMy Lords, does my noble friend accept that, contrary to what the noble Lord suggests, inflation is entirely a monetary phenomenon; that since 1997 the Bank of England has been…29 Jun 2023HANSARDRelationships and Sexuality Education (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2023My Lords, I am one of those people who has no connection to Northern Ireland—ones who think that they probably know better than those who live there what should be going on—who…28 Jun 2023HANSARDHorizon EuropeTo ask His Majesty’s Government what financial assessment they have made of the benefits to the United Kingdom’s economy arising from scientific discoveries or advances achieved…28 Jun 2023HANSARDHorizon EuropeSince my noble friend is obviously struggling to answer the question and quantify the benefits to the economy of our former participation in Horizon Europe, can he explain why the…28 Jun 2023