For this week’s quiz, I thought I would again invite readers to identify peers who are pictured. However, this week there is a theme to the selection and it is, I think, much easier that last week’s. If you can identify one of the peers pictured, you can probably work out the theme and soon…
As Lord Soley mentions, William Pitt the Younger became Prime Minister at the age of 24. He was elected as an MP at the age of 21 and became Chancellor of the Exchequer eighteen months later. He then twice refused the premiership before accepting it in December 1783. The Tory preponderance in the Lords that existed…
This week’s quiz draws on photographs rather than descriptions of members of the House of Lords. Reproduced here are pictures of three relatively recent entrants to the House; one entered in 2007 and the others much more recently. Two of the three are professors. The first two readers to identify correctly all three peers will…
In different ways, this week has been devoted to disseminating information about the House of Lords as well as British politics and legislatures more generally. I was in Westminster at the beginning of the week – and again struck by how many MPs and peers were working within the Palace. I was there partly to discuss arrangements for the…
Given that the Pope has been visiting Westminster, speaking yesterday in Westminster Hall, I thought it appropriate for this week’s quiz to have a religious theme. There are peers drawn from a wide range of religions and of none (there is an active humanist group in the House). As usual, the first two readers to supply the…
