Monthly Archives: August 2013

What do we want from an Olympic legacy?

Baroness Valentine

Lord Harris of Haringey is currently conducting an inquiry into the Olympic legacy (The Committee on Olympic and Paralympic legacy). I suspect we all have very different ideas of what a good legacy would look like. The Government of course has come out one year on with some (difficult to substantiate or disprove) statistics proving…

Sex and the sisters

Baroness Deech

First, a welcome to the new peers announced yesterday.  Odd that the LibDems should be appointing any, given their stance that all peers should be elected.  And good luck to the new ones in finding a desk and a computer, room to sit down on the red benches, securing a place on a committee and getting…

European matters

Lord Hodgson

As we stagger towards the end of the Parliamentary sessions and look forward to sun, sand and sangria, the UK’s relationship with Europe has continued to occupy our minds as well as a good deal of Parliamentary time. At the centre of the current discussion is the UK’s right to opt out of 130 European…