Lords of the Blog is now one year old. Today marks the start of our second year. However, we are a mere stripling compared with the Official Report (Hansard). It is celebrating its 100th birthday as an official publication. Some form of report of parliamentary debates was published from 1803 onwards, but they were not…
Here’s a question (or rather two questions) for all our readers. Who is the member of the House of Lords that you most admire? And why? I thought this would be an interesting question to pose as it is one that anyone with some knowledge of the Lords – presumably most if not all of our readers…
Here’s the usual weekend quiz questions. I plan shortly to post a more general question which I hope will attract responses from a great many readers. Peer 1 I was educated in Glasgow and London. I am a distinguished surgeon and was professor of surgery at Guy’s Hospital. I spend my summers undertaking surgery on…
The House will have a Friday sitting tomorrow to consider Private Members’ Bills. Lord Ashley of Stoke is moving the Second Reading of his Disabled Persons (Independent Living) Bill. The measure is designed to give rights to disabled persons to enable them to live as independently as possible. Lord Lester of Herne Hill is moving…
The Northern Ireland Bill, designed to assist the devolution process in the province, completed its remaining stages in the Lords yesterday. There were two noteworthy features. The first was that the Government was keen to see it passed as quickly as possible, hence its expedited passage. The Govermment argued that it was necessary to get…
