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Members discussed the risks of unsafe substances being advertised and sold on social media as physique‑enhancing products, including enforcing platform responsibilities through the Online Safety Act and tackling influencer promotion.
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Dangerous physique enhancing products were in the spotlight in the Lords today, as Lord Addington quizzed the government on influencers using social media to sell substances not fit for human consumption.
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The Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill aims to bring British Steel into public ownership. Members will debate the key themes and purpose of the bill during this second reading debate.
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Members press the government in an urgent question from Baroness Kidron about the US government’s decision to restrict foreign national access to Anthropic’s Claude AI models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5 and the implications for the UK’s security.
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Bishop of Chelmsford Guli Francis-Dehqani shares her experience of Iran during the 1979 Revolution, before having to flee following the tragic murder of her brother, in the latest episode of Lord Speaker’s Corner.
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House of Lords members pressed the government on the US-Iran deal and opening the Strait of Hormuz in an urgent question on Monday 15 June.
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Members press the government in an urgent question from Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon about its plans, following the US–Iran agreement to end the Middle East conflict, to support the reopening of the Straits of Hormuz and address wider defence and security issues for the UK’s Gulf partners.
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🎧 New podcast epsiode: Lord Speaker’s Corner returns as the Iranian-born Bishop of Chelmsford, Guli Francis-Dehqani speaks to Lord Forsyth of Drumlean.
She tells a remarkable personal story of survival, resilience and forgiveness – and the significance of a pillowcase which resides in her office.
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Lord Speaker’s Corner returns as the Iranian-born Bishop of Chelmsford shares the extraordinary family story behind a pillowcase pierced by four bullets aimed at her father.
In the first episode of a new series, Lord Forsyth of Drumlean speaks to the Rt Revd Guli Francis-Dehqani about survival, faith, and what her experience reveals about Iran today.
“My mother was shot. (She) threw herself over him in an effort to protect him”
Bishop Francis-Dehqani recalls how, during the 1979 Iranian revolution, gunmen climbed into her family home and opened fire on her parents as they slept. After her brother was later killed in an ambush believed to target her father, the family fled to the UK, carrying with them a pillowcase that came to symbolise survival, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
“I absolutely believe this regime is in its death throes, but death throes can last for quite a long time… democracy, the kind of freedom we might imagine, it’s not born overnight. A nation has to learn to be a democracy, and Iran is far from that.”
Bishop Francis-Dehqani also reflects on the current conflict in Iran, explaining that power works more like a spider’s web than a pyramid. On the US/Israel attack, she says: “I had quite a strong sense that this is not how things are going to change in Iran… I don’t know where this ends. It is horrific, but my sense is that President Trump unleashed something without fully understanding the consequences, imagining that it was going to be a quick fix. Underestimating actually the Iranian regime and the Iranian people.” Bishop Francis-Dehqani warns that ordinary Iranians are now caught between a vicious repression and fear of more bombing and need a credible resistance around which they can unite.
Listen now to hear more of the Bishop of Chelmsford’s remarkable first-hand story and unique perspective on what is happening in Iran today.
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Members discussed the government’s priorities for farming and food production, including boosting food security, improving farm profitability, strengthening domestic production, and balancing these with environmental and climate considerations.
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