House of Lords Articles

Legal loan sharks are clever, modern, and should be tightly regulated By Parry Mitchell —Until a year ago I knew nothing about payday loans. Of course, I had heard about loan sharks and I knew of the murky underworld where desperate people seeking immediate cash could...

Backdowns, U-turns, rebellions and revolts. It’s been an extraordinary six months of government management. Now bringing democracy to the House of Lords joins the list of things that was going to happen, but now is not. It is, of course, a mess. By sticking with the...

It’s not just ‘big society’ advocates that are bigging up volunteering: the whole Olympic experience has put what we do for each other – not just in sport – at the heart of policymaking for some time to come. As the Lords reform marathon stumbles to an early finish...

The Mother of Parliaments, they say. A model of democratic government unique in that it has been sculpted over time from tradition, and not through the auspices of a democratically enacted constitution. That the model has been followed throughout the world, the end...