内容摘要："It wasn't an easy match and I'm very happy to get through it," she said.

"It wasn't an easy match and I'm very happy to get through it," she said.

"This country has shown leadership throughout history in relation to copyright and setting the highest standards in order to try and drag people up to our level rather than simply putting up the flag of surrender," he said."I fear there is a view that we have to allow AI companies to do anything they want because otherwise they'll just go and do it somewhere else."

Lord Watson, former deputy leader of the Labour Party and clearly a fan of Sir Elton, reeled off a string of song lyrics urging ministers to heed "the clarion cry of this country's creators".A third Labour peer, Lord Knight, also called on his party colleagues to "protect the livelihoods of artists from big tech" and said he believed this could be done at the same time as "taking advantage of the creative and economic opportunities of AI".The strength of feeling around the urgency to protect artists was made clear by others, including crossbencher and composer Lord Berkeley, who labelled the current situation "burglary".

"The only way you will stop it is by acting now before the gate is trampled down by the horses," he said."If this door is left open we will destroy the future of our creative industries."

Conservative Lord Dobbs agreed those who had "slogged away, struggled and suffered" for their art deserved the government's protection and Liberal Democrat Floella Benjamin said she saluted Kidron for her "tenacity and dogged determination" to ensure "creativity will not be stolen".

Baroness Jones spoke again at the close of the debate to plead with peers not to overturn the will of MPs for a second time, insisting "this isn't about Silicon Valley", denying the government was being complacent, and pointing out that "no other territory has cracked this either"."I thought maybe he'd remarried, and his second wife wasn't allowing him to come back home," she says sadly.

"I've been asking: 'Where is my son?'"The first time I heard he was a zama zama at Stilfontein, I was told by my son. He came to my house holding his phone and he showed me the news on social media and explained that they were saying he escaped from the police."

The police say several illegal miners described him as one of the Stilfontein ring leaders.His mother does not believe he could have been in this position and says seeing the coverage of him has been upsetting.