The Director General of the BBC gathered together a select band of MPs and Peers this week to discuss the breakdown of public trust in both broadcasters and politicians. Looking round the table, it was difficult to work out why we had been invited. Gerald Kaufman was an obvious choice to bemoan the claimed collapse…
An early start this morning in Whitechapel in the East End of London chairing a meeting of the management group of Centre of the Cell, a fantastic children’s science educational centre about biological and medical sciences being developed inside the heart of the new medical school buildings at Queen Mary University of London . The…
Climate change is about as big an issue as you can get. If we – that’s all of us here on planet Earth – get it wrong we suspect it will herald the end of the world as we know it. And there will be a big reverse for the human species in the process.…
The Banking (Special Provisions) Bill – the Bill to nationalise Northern Rock – is being rushed through both Houses. The Government regard it as emergency legislation, hence the perceived need to get it passed within three days. In order to enable it to be passed quickly, its provisions are drawn in general terms – that,…
First blog: a good day to start as I’ve been doing a typical day’s work in the Lords. Last week Lord Crisp happened to mention to me he had a question down for this coming Thursday on artificial organs–mechanical heart pumps, plastic corneas, lung simulators and so on and asked if I might contribute. I…
