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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank many noble Lords for their good wishes and for allowing me to speak sitting down. It is a bit of paradox to be talking about a football Bill when you cannot…13 Nov 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Vaizey, and to welcome the noble Lords, Lord Roberts and Lord Young. I hope that they, like me, will welcome the degree…15 Nov 2023HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMy Lords, I am not sure that I am going to be offensive; I now feel that my presentation is lacking as a result. Let me at once declare an interest. I was the general secretary of…21 Mar 2023HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillBecause we are not having that kind of iterative debate, I will refrain from making the point that I am not saying that I spoke only to academics who took the same view I might…21 Mar 2023HANSARDUkraine: UpdateMy Lords, could the Minister comment on what progress is being made to seize the assets and to deal with the financial movements of cash of those who have appeared on the…19 Jan 2023HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMy Lords, I want to make a brief point, because I know that everybody wants to make progress, but free speech is also important. I could well understand a code of practice of this…07 Dec 2022HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Johnson. Like so many other people in the debate, I strongly agree with the comments made, from the speech by the noble…14 Nov 2022HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMy Lords, I rise to speak to my Amendment 62. I can help the Minister by saying that it is probably imperfect. That may save her a lot of time later, as she tries to dissect it to…14 Nov 2022HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMy Lords, I can probably do this quite briefly. These are very helpful amendments, which illustrate an extremely important point. To work out why or how the Bill will be useful or…02 Nov 2022HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMy Lords, this is probably the only appropriate place to raise this point. There was a debate earlier in which my friend, the noble Lord, Lord Smith of Finsbury—he may be on the…02 Nov 2022HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillTo be very clear, I have no difficulty at all with the concept that people in student unions who impede the free speech and academic freedom of others must be dealt with. For the…02 Nov 2022HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMy Lords, I start with my declaration of interests: I still hold academic posts at Cambridge, and I was the general secretary of what was the Association of University Teachers,…31 Oct 2022HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMy Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 22. One of the things that I have inevitably observed over a long period is that the proportion of the academic and academic-related staff…31 Oct 2022HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillI would be grateful for that letter as well. I suggest to the noble Earl that one of my experiences of these colleges is that they do not go back and read anything much later than…31 Oct 2022HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillI want to go back to the noble Earl’s point on security costs. I would like to understand a little more what that might involve. My own experience, probably not wholly…31 Oct 2022HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillWhen the police decide to intervene, it is often not because a host organisation decides that they should or invites them to. They make a judgment, as constables, as to what would…31 Oct 2022HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMy Lords, I wish to introduce Amendment 14. It touches on the kinds of concerns that the noble Lord, Lord Sandhurst, has just raised and it is, in my estimation, a kind of partner…31 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Howard and Lord Pannick, for providing us with an unanswerable case that this is a breach of international law. Many of us will want no…11 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI am sure the noble Baroness will get a go.11 Oct 2022HANSARDHer Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth IIMy Lords, it is a real privilege to take part in this debate and to follow the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Sentamu, and his inspiring words, and also the noble Lord, Lord…10 Sept 2022