(With thanks to and acknowledgment of Tim Kevan, author of the wonderful BabyBarista blog at the Guardian, and to Alex Williams, qc of legal cartoonists.) I wrote on 12 December about the devastating effects that cuts in legal aid will have on litigants and the courts, especially people with family problems. Lawyers attract little sympathy, but…
The last Pharaoh has gone and his legacy will soon be as covered in sand as his predecessor’s. A debate about the Middle East took up the whole of Friday in the Lords but their Lordships are no more certain of the future than anyone else. Given the lack of any democratic infrastructure and viable opposition…
This was the film where our hero found himself living the same day over and over again, and falling into the same traps. And so it was in the Moses Room on Tuesday when we debated the proposed dismembering of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, and the Human Tissue Authority, and the transfer of…
You will have heard on the BBC that peers have reached a deal to end the filibuster relating to the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill. You may not have realised that the deal was brokered by the crossbenchers, led by our Convenor, Baroness d’Souza. After taking the sense from all sides of what would move…
I am keeping an eye on the late night debates, even though we crossbenchers feel a bit like referees watching from the sidelines as the 2, or is it 3 parties slug it out over the PVS&C Bill. I welcome Lord Low’s calm and holistic view. But I can’t help feeling that the behaviour of…
