I am always away the first two weekends in January – the first for the annual Study of Parliament Group conference and the second in order to serve on the interview panel for Thouron Scholarships – so this is the first opportunity of the year to pen a quiz. This is is on quotations. As…
I promised to reveal the grand prizewinners of the quiz prior to Christmas. Since the quiz resumed following the election, there have been 22 readers who have won the quizzes. Some of these are grand prizewinners, having won three or more. Indeed, three have won ten or more and three have won between five and…
In the run-up to Christmas, I shall publish the names of grand prize-winners to date. I also plan to include those readers who have been regular contributors to the quiz, frequently getting answers correct but not necessarily being among the first two to supply the answers. I think they too merit an invitation to tea…
The point that members of the House of Lords bring to the House a substantial body of experience is frequently made. The range of experience, as shown in previous quizzes, is wide. This week the focus is peers who have served the nation overseas in different capacities. I have previously asked about peers who have…
A Government nowadays usually comprises over 120 ministers, with twenty to thirty drawn from the House of Lords. The figure includes whips, who in the House of Lords fufil additional functions to those carried out by whips in the House of Commons. In the Commons, whips are usually seen but not heard. In the Lords,…
