A more disparate group of authors than found in Blue or Purple books, this collection seeks to throw out an eclectic...
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Life in the Lords Articles
Lib Dems in the Lords
Say one thing, vote another. That seems to be the instructions to the government’s junior party in the Lords. The...
A Critical Woman
Baroness Wootton of Abinger was the first of the life peers when this breed was created in 1958, heading what became a...
New girl in the Lords VII
My first year drew to a close amid scenes of utter chaos in the government’s legislative programme. At first glance,...
A believer still
I was assured this was a point very much in my favour. Labour needed people who would not go native, I was told, and I...
New girl in the Lords VI
Not so easy in the Lords where Baroness Jay – or Margaret Callaghan as she was born – vividly remembers...
New girl in the Lords V – and on the night bus home
Yet serious plots are afoot. This government - by diktat and the use of its majority (which it has in both houses,...
New girls in the Lords – part IV
There is an exclusive club in the Lords which has just added another member to its illustrious roll call: former...
Battling it out in the Lords
There was a good example this week of the House of Lords doing its job of scrutiny. Winning a vote on the public...
A hole in the heart of our democracy
This week sees the start of the Lords Committee stages of two major pieces of legislation. The two bills in question...
New girl in the Lords – part III
In fact, done up to the nines, they intervene virtually every day - and are accorded automatic precedence when they...
What is the point of the Lords now?
One of the key roles of the House of Lords is to scrutinise legislation that comes up to us from the Commons. In this...