Last year in the House of Lords I suggested a national DNA data base. If we had one Rachel Nickel’s murderer would have been caught earlier and Colin Stagg would not have faced the possibility of life time imprisonment. I am more then ready to sign up. Are you?
There was a statement in the House on Thursday about our future involvement in Iraq and the question of an inquiry. I am in support of an inquiry but it has to be wider than the issue of the post conflict management. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldhansrd/text/81218-0009.htm This whole issue raises the question of how we deal with really…
Another first for the House of Lords! Lord Paul became the first member of Asian origin to sit on the Woolsack. http://www.parliament.uk/about/glossary.cfm?ref=woolsac_4660 The Lords have become much more representative of British society than the Commons in recent years. Baroness Amos was the first black woman to become leader of the House – even before Barak Obama…
Further to Lord Norton’s entry below I also thought this debate was well worth while. Lords of the Blog is clearly attracting interest but we still do not have enough members taking part. I want to work on getting some more Lords blogging next year – that’s my New Year resolution! I also have to…
I have been very busy just recently and one of my activities has been the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal of which I am chairman. Mary Seacole was the Afro Caribbean nurse of the Crimean war and she was buried in my Hammersmith constituency – Kensal Green cemetery. Years ago the black community in Hammersmith…
