At yesterday's Parliamentary Human Rights Group/Index on Censorship seminar on Bahrain with Maryam al-Khawaja, foreign affairs representative of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights.
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Francis Story The Search for the Self
The search for Self is vain, because it is a search for something that does not exist except as a mythical concept which has had to be taken into the structure of language by common assent. If it is used in any other way than as a fictitious convenience - if it is taken as meaning something real and enduring - it cannot be anything but a stumbling-block to the development of right understanding.
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- High Elms, early sixties
- Paul Buckley
- At Victoria's party for my birhday
- With the Mayor of Bromley and Nick Hopkins. After...
- High Elms
- Events last week
- Myelofibrosis
- KIRF fundraising event
- With Bridy Purcell and Sophie Vale. Bridy interv...
- Sarafkandi commemoration
- Bhante, presiding over the ceremony
- Close of the ceremony, after the circumambulatio...
- Springhill Anniversary
- Blood test September 10
- Bahrain
- With Sue Shutter
- My turn
- Dilbagh Chana speaks
- Chris Rennard speaks
- With our kind hosts Arvind and Mrs Patel
- Sarah Teather MP and Lord (Chris) Rennard
- Comparing notes with Dilbagh Chana
- Fiona Mactaggart MP, first speaker at the Wembl...
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- Walkabout at the Ahmadiyya Muslim National Conve...
- Rafiq Hayat, the National Amir, greets me at the...
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About Me
- Eric Avebury
- Eric Lubbock, Lord Avebury, b September 29, 1928. Upper Canada College & Balliol College Oxford (BA 1949, boxing blue); Welsh Guards (Second Lieut) 1949-51; Rolls Royce (aero-engine division) 1951-6; Production Engineering 1956-60; Charterhouse Group 1960-2. MP Orpington 1962-70; Liberal Chief Whip 1963-70; Chair, Parliamentary Civil Liberties Group 1964-70; Parliamentary Human Rights Group, 1976-1997; Traveller Law Reform Unit; Peru Support Group, 2003-; Cameroon Campaign Group 2003- Speaker's Conference on Electoral Law 1963-5; Select Committee on Science and Technology, 1968-70; Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life, 1974-6 President, Data Processing Management Association, 1972-5; Fluoridation Society, 1972-84; Conservation Society, 1973-83; London Bach Society, 1984-98; ACERT (Advisory Council for Education of Romanies & Travellers) 2001-;TAPOL (Indonesian human rights); Kurdish Human Rights Project; Patron, Angulimala (Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy), 1992-; Founder, Parliamentarians for East Timor, 1988; Vice-Chair, Parliamentary Group for Tibet; Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE); Fellow, British Computer Society (FBCS).
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