I assume from the extent of media coverage given to this snowfall that it poses the most serious threat to Britain since 1940.
Lord Soley
Snow
Lord Norton
Surveillance: citizens and the state
The Lords Constitution Committee has spent over a year undertaking an inquiry into the impact of government surveillance and data collection and the effect it has on the privacy of individuals and their relationship with the state. The report, Surveillance: Citizens and the State, is a substantial one, both quantitatively and qualitatively. It draws on extensive…
Lord Norton
Parliament at work
Both Houses have managed to sit this week, despite the dreadful weather conditions. On Monday, courts did not sit, buses in London did not run, and many schools closed, but Parliament met. My picture shows Victoria Tower Gardens early on Wednesday morning, when conditions were still pretty bad. A determination to sit is a feature…
Lord Taylor of Warwick
Back to the Future.
This week The Good Childhood Inquiry reported that children in the UK are more unhappy than their European counterparts. The report concludes that this, and bad behaviour amongst UK children, stems from “excessive adult individualism”. For as long as I can remember, the media has focused more on the problems with our youth than the…
Lord Soley
Comments welcome
Further to Lord Norton’s post and all your very helpful responses can you say if you would like more than 12 Lords to be blogging on a regular basis? There is a history to this question. When I had my own blog as an MP and then as a Lord my problem was the work…
Lord Soley
News of the World and Lobbying
I received the following request from the News of the World the other day. “We would like you to tell us: 1. The amount you are paid for any consultancy work you do and which companies it is for. This would include the amount you are paid for being part of any advisory groups or…
Lord Norton
Comments welcome
I had a meeting earlier this evening with fellow bloggers to discuss how to the build on the success of Lords of the Blog. We have been impressed by the interest the blog has attracted and by the quality of the comments made by readers. We considered a number of ideas for adding to the appeal of…
Lord Tyler
Whither the weather?
My American friends and relations always express amazement at our British obsession with the weather … until, that is, they experience its vagaries. In so many parts of the US, and indeed in so many other continents, the pattern is both predictable and slow to change. Not so here. However, we do seem especially prone…
Lord Norton
"Never underestimate the wisdom of the Lords"
Given the negative coverage that the Lords has received recently, it is nice to see that Rachel Sylvester has an article in The Times in which she argues “there is a danger of learning the wrong lessons from this incident and of losing sight of what is good about the Upper Chamber”. She makes the case…