When people demonstrate outside Parliament, they tend to congregate in Parliament Square. It has space for large demonstrations and it faces the Commons’ end of the Palace of Westminster. Some groups, however, demonstrate by the George V statue opposite the Lords’ end of the Palace. As I mentioned in my previous post, I get a…
Iain Dale occasionally does a link from his blog to one of the posts on this site. Whenever he does, our traffic increases quite markedly. He did a link to my post on office space in the Lords. However, he said that I bemoaned my lack of office space. As the first person to comment on his…
The picture shows a Central Lobby with no members of the public present. I use it as a means of raising the question: how concerned should we be that the public take a limited interest in what Parliament does? I have raised this question before in two contexts. One relates to the work of select…
The wit of Lord Hart in seconding the loyal address at the start of the session was not confined to the quote I gave in an earlier post. His speech was littered with extremely funny reflections on his period working as special adviser to Lord Chancellor Lord Irvine and his successor Lord Falconer: They both had huge energy…
My desk in the Lords In my earlier post (‘If only…’) I mentioned that we had to work in limited space. There is not the capacity in the Lords for each peer to have an office. The most one can hope for is desk space. I thought I would illustrate the point with a picture…
