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I have long felt an identification with the Belfast boy, C.S. Lewis, whose early years were spent in Little Lea, a lovely house near to the home in east Belfast where Joan and I lived for some thirty-five years.

Speech in a debate in the House of Lords on The Queen’s Speech on Wednesday 19 May 2021 – Hansard Report

Today I was honoured though saddened to deliver this eulogy at the funeral of my friend, Jonathan Fryer.

Her Majesty, the Queen, and the Duke of Edinburgh have been a rock of stability and continuity through the whole of my life, and I confess to feeling emotionally affected by his death, wondering what the generational change it signifies may mean for the future of our country.

We are at a critical juncture in the life of our House. The last year has been exceptionally difficult and hopefully we can soon return to more, if not all of us, working at Westminster.

I have served in the House of Lords for 25 years and in recent weeks I have been encouraged by colleagues from all parts of the House of Lords to stand for election as Lord Speaker, at least in part because of my experience as the first Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The book of Proverbs is one of the great books of wisdom, and not only in that library of books that Christians know as the Holy Bible.

Sermon preached by Lord Alderdice to Shelswell Benefice on Sunday 22nd November 2020, The Festival of Christ the King.

This very short manual of what a significant body of early Christians believed about their faith is of enormous importance, not least because it gives a real insight into their priorities in those early times.

Forty years on, the concept of Solidarity, which so inspired the famous and transformational Polish Trade Union, is again receiving the attention of progressive thinkers and we are celebrating and exploring the concept in a series of webinars.