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Nick Clegg should have read this book before embarking on his ill-fated 2012 proposals. Indeed, it should be on David Cameron and Ed Miliband’s reading list, and on those of serious commentators and students of parliament as well as the new batch of peers. (Just as...

I had to look up the word ‘Festschrift’ when I received this volume: it is a work which honours a distinguished academic, drawing contributions from colleagues on the matter of their expertise. Vernon Bogdanor is undeniably the foremost constitutional scholar of his...

Wales is adopting a more pragmatic, gentler approach to austerity than London, Carwyn Jones tells Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison DURING his decade as first minister, Rhodri Morgan trumpeted the ‘clear red water’ Wales had established between itself and the Labour...

The House of Lords 1911-2011, A Century of Non-Reform, Chris Ballinger For those who define and equate reform with an elected House of Lords, so that this is their holy grail, this book will make grim reading.  Well researched, it is no dry academic treatise, but...