Today 50 peers, including me, made personal visits to Schools on the outreach programme designed to spread the word about what we do in the House of Lords. It was great fun for me; I hope the students enjoyed it too. My visit was to the East Norfolk Sixth Form College in Gorleston near Great…
As my fellow bloggers have said, returning to parliament felt different this time. The sheer numbers of new boys and girls, with more on the way, makes the place feel claustrophobically crowded at question time. I failed to arrive before prayers on tuesday and couldn’t get a seat anywhere. Eventually I squeezed on the back…
Yesterday an invitation arrived from Baroness Stern to the inaugural AGM of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Abolition of the Death Penalty. Very timely. Teresa Lewis, a 41yr old woman with borderline subnormal level of intellectual development was the first woman to be executed by the State of Virginia for nearly a century. This…
Taking one final week in Italy before returning to the parliamentary fray next week. One delightful consequence of this blog was I was contacted by Charles Young, the author of ‘Impunity’ the new book about Berlusconi, after he saw my blog reference a few weeks ago http://lordsoftheblog.net/2010/08/03o. It turns out he and his wife have…
Lord Norton mentioned in a recent blog that we carry on working even when the House is in recess. This week I attended an interesting policy meeting at the Department of Health with the new Minister for Care Services Paul Burstow MP, who has taken over the Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Group on Research…
