Author Archive for Lord Tyler

Public Relations?

Lord Tyler

My fellow blogger, Frances D’Souza, and I have been interviewed about the ‘LordsoftheBlog’ project for the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘The Week in Westminster’, broadcast on Saturday morning.   Even the respected journalist Elinor Goodman – hostess of this week’s discussion – couldn’t resist challenging us on our motives.  Is this just PR (that is ‘public…

Good Lord – it works!

Lord Tyler

I’m amazed that so many interesting comments have arrived so quickly.  And I understand there have been thousands of ‘hits’ on the LordsoftheBlog website.  Since the whole purpose of the exercise is to try and make Parliament more accessible to the people we serve, this is clearly already a potential success.  As one of the other…

Oh Lord!

Lord Tyler

Apparently we are going live today. So far, our blog confessions have had a very limited audience, but now anyone may see what we have been doing. Not that I have anything to hide. Indeed, I suspect that most members of the Lords would be only too happy if the public could and did take…

Trust the Experts?

Lord Tyler

In the last week I have discussed the role of the House of Lords with two groups of students (40+ at a Sixth Form College in Taunton and later 40+ from Hull University), as well as some 30 middle-ranking civil servants and a couple of exceptionally erudite Canadian commentators. Two impressions are left from all…

Trust

Lord Tyler

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…