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HANSARDSocial MobilityMy Lords, my remarks will focus on the need for greater flexibility in higher education. We should abandon the view that a standard three-year residential degree is the minimum…29 Jan 2020HANSARDQueen’s SpeechMy Lords, the Government’s rhetoric indicates a welcome willingness to contemplate radical initiatives in research and education. That is especially crucial if we are to confront…09 Jan 2020HANSARDInternational Sustainability: Natural Resources and BiodiversityMy Lords, we should be grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Jenkin, for the chance to address what is surely an ethical imperative: responsible stewardship of the entire natural…04 Nov 2019HANSARDSpace Science and TechnologyMy Lords, the Americans committed 4% of the federal Budget to Apollo. Had that level of spend been sustained, there would have been footprints on Mars by now. But once that race…15 Jul 2019HANSARDSustainable Development GoalsMy Lords, it is good that this debate has focused both on what the UK itself is doing to remedy the shameful inadequacies within its own border with regard to justice and poverty…10 Jul 2019HANSARDPolicy-making: Future Generations’ InterestsMy Lords, we should indeed be grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Bird, for inspiring this debate. Young people in this country face the future with foreboding as well as hope. They…20 Jun 2019HANSARDClimate ChangeMy Lords, climate science is intricate, but despite the uncertainties it offers two messages that most agree on. First, even within the next decade or two, regional disruptions to…24 Jan 2019