Category Archives: Lord Low

1 year on: Coalition and Disability

Lord Low 09/05/2011 – 3:46 pm

As has already been mentioned in the recent blog entry by Baroness Grey-Thompson, on Thursday, ahead of the biggest ever lobby of Parliament by disabled people this Wednesday, I introduced a debate calling attention to the impact of Government policies on disabled people.  The general opinion was that it went very well.  We had an Olympian maiden speech from Lord Fellowes of West Stafford who, e […]

Post-Match Analysis

Lord Low 21/02/2011 – 1:31 pm

Last time I contributed to this blog I said I would bet money there would be a deal which enabled the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill to complete its passage in time for the referendum to take place on 5 May, and that the recent goings-on in the House would not cause the sky to fall in.  I bet Lord Fowler the same on Radio 4 at the beginning of February.  As the Bill passed i […]

Guest Blog: A right old lather

Lord Low 25/01/2011 – 4:00 pm

Their Lordships are getting into a right old lather over the stand-off between the Government and the opposition in the House - "filibustering is not cricket - not the way we do things in this House", "if things carry on like this we will see a guillotine introduced and that would be the end of civilisation as we know it", etc., etc. In the Westminster bubble, this is quickly whipped up into an […]