Last month, I won an award from my professional body, the Political Studies Association. (For anyone particularly interested in why, see page 15 of the awards brochure.) The award was presented to me by Lord Plant of Highfield, a name now known to those who have read the comments on the previous post. I was allocated…
Another quick question for those wishing to test their grey cells over the Christmas period. There are four members of the House of Lords who hold or have held university posts as professors of politics and who have served, in one capacity or another, in the Politics Department of Hull University. Who are they?
In an earlier post, on 27 October, I wrote about an American novelist who had been interviewed on the BBC’s Broadcasting House to object to the term ‘swing states’ in the coverage of the US elections and to claim that Britons were more racist than Americans. I took issue with the assertions made in the…
The present session may appear light in legislative terms given the relatively few Bills being brought forward. However, the number of Bills masks the extent of the Government’s attempts to enact legislative change. It has developed a penchant for introducing Bills that are in effect several Bills in one. I have already written about the…
Should you be running out of questions for festive family quizzes, here are a couple in the format suggested by hifranc. Who are the two peers? Peer 1: My father sat as an MP for Hull between the wars. I am the longest-serving peer of my party in the House of Lords. Who am I? Peer…
