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Social media; the link between your home and our House

Lord Sugar 31/10/2011 – 11:12 am

Most people who watch me on television or read about me know I am a Lord, but very few people actually know what that is or what the House of Lords does in this country.  Even when people do know what it is about they think it is a closed shop, full of lots of old men falling asleep in a grand chamber, totally separate from reality.  I’m not going to say that there aren’t areas of the Lo […]

Written at 11:12 am on 31/10/2011, by Lord Sugar

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Privacy, Twitter and the Law (2)

Lord Soley 24/05/2011 – 9:55 am

Further to my post below, there was a statement in the Lords yesterday (or an urgent PQ repeated from the Commons to be precise). http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/ldhansrd/text/110523-0002.htm#11052325000213 A joint committee made up of six members of the Commons and six from the Lords is to look into the state of the law following the recent publicity. A number of interventi […]

Written at 9:55 am on 24/05/2011, by Lord Soley

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Privacy,Twitter and the Law

Lord Soley 23/05/2011 – 7:00 am

I think I am going to do some hard thinking about the growing problems relating to privacy. In the past I have resisted a law on privacy because of the way it limits investigative journalism but that is less likely now that we have the counter balance of freedom of speech enshrined in the European Convention. The Courts have been working out a balance but some of the press are determined to b […]

Written at 7:00 am on 23/05/2011, by Lord Soley

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Electronic Lords versus Clockwork Lords

Lord Soley 11/03/2011 – 9:33 am

 A lively and entertaining mini debate took place today on the Administration and Works Committee Report dealing with the use of electronic devices in the House. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/ldselect/ldaccwks/92/9202.htm  We have agreed to allow limited use in the Chamber of certain hand held electronic devices but we are not to be allowed to use a search engine to dig up i […]

Written at 9:33 am on 11/03/2011, by Lord Soley


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Guest blog: People and Parliament

Lord Renton of Mount Harry 18/03/2009 – 12:53 pm

When does a Blogger, talking about himself, turn into an Inquisitor asking lots of questions?  That is what I want to become. The Lords Information Committee, of which I am the proud chairman, is starting an inquiry this week in which we want to find out your thoughts about Parliament in general and the House of Lords in particular. We are calling it “People and Parliament”. We are asking […]

Written at 12:53 pm on 18/03/2009, by Lord Renton of Mount Harry


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