Category Archives: Baroness Deech

Banking it

Baroness Deech 27/01/2012 – 5:18 pm

The solution to the dilemma of the banker's bonus is obvious.  Mr. Hester should take it, and give it to charity.  That way the contract he seems to have had with RBS is fulfilled; honour is preserved; and the money goes back to the people for good purposes. The chair of RBS and of the remuneration committee is Sir Philip Hampton. A Sir Philip Hampton was the author of the Hampton Report on G […]

Against my Will

Baroness Deech 26/01/2012 – 3:34 pm

The Inheritance (Cohabitants) Bill received its first reading on the 12th January.  It is based on a Law Commission Report, Law Com no. 331 (2011) http://www.justice.gov.uk/lawcommission/docs/lc331_intestacy_report.pdf which, after consultation, recommended that the law be changed so that cohabitants would have an automatic claim to the property of their partner if he or she died intestate, prov […]

Ironic Lady: the Film

Baroness Deech 10/01/2012 – 10:27 am

I have just watched The Iron Lady, a film about Baroness Thatcher's life.  It does not deal with her period in the House of Lords at all, but focuses on her rise to, and tenure of the position of the first and, so far, the only female Prime Minister of this country.  In most ways, the title of the film is a misnomer because it is not about her lasting influence, and it certainly is not a deep an […]

Shopping at Christmas

Baroness Deech 18/12/2011 – 4:46 pm

Mary Portas, shopping guru, has delivered to the Prime Minister a review of the state of our high streets and town centres.  I was able to get a copy from the Printed Paper Office of the Lords.  I noticed this weekend that there are considerably fewer people out shopping on my own local high street than there were a year ago, due no doubt to the recession, internet shopping and the discount "vil […]

A very great Aussie

Baroness Deech 10/12/2011 – 12:08 am

 The death has just been announced of Sir Zelman Cowen, former Governor General of Australia, former Vice-Chancellor, former Provost of Oriel College Oxford, great constitutional lawyer and historian; widely regarded as a man of the utmost integrity, intellect and kindliness, no one had a bad word to say about him.  I met him when he was a fellow head of an Oxford college and regard my acquainta […]