They represented an "enlarging awareness of what it is to be human", said Lord Bragg.
And so, near the top of Lord Layard's list for improving human happiness, comes the following recommendation: much higher rates of income tax to tame the rat race.
His views were backed by legal practitioners including Liberal Democrat Lord Goodhart, a former chair of the law reform group JUSTICE, and Lord Pannick, a crossbench peer and human rights lawyer, among others.
The justice secretary said he had not ruled out stand alone trafficking legislation in Scotland he said for now he could explore the possibility, suggested by the Lord Advocate, to introduce a statutory human trafficking criminal aggravation.
But the detail about Captain Jones giving all the credit to the Lord, while a small thing, suggests a writer interested in human stories, watching, remembering, and sticking around long enough to be generally hospitable to otherness.
Lord Pannick argued that there was no danger of a successful challenge under human rights law, because the European Court of Human Rights precedent was firmly against the idea that people had a human right to a particular kind of religious marriage - so if a marriage was refused for religious reasons, the courts would uphold that decision.
Home Office minister Lord West of Spithead warned of "problems" with the European Court of Human Rights if the proposals in the Crime and Security Bill are rejected.
Speakers at the rally included Lord Waheed Alli, the first openly gay peer, Peter Tatchell, Gay and Human Rights Campaigner, co-founder of OutRage!
Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, is due next month to publish a bill incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into British law.
Mr Maguire claims the Lord Advocate and Mr Kerr were in breach of Article 2 of the European Court of Human Rights as they failed to hold a prompt inquiry into the deaths of people who contracted Hep C.
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As a visual spectacle, it rivals anything in The Lord of the Rings or King Kong, precisely because you know you're seeing a human being in action.
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