A current Lords parliamentary inquiry is allowing YouTube submissions from members of the public.  The inquiry is on the topic of how people engage with the work of the House of Lords and Parliament more generally. One such member of the public who has shared her views is, erm, Jo Swinson, in an excellent short video

The House of Lords will be almost halved in size and peers will be elected by the public, under radical plans announced by the Government.

Iain Dale’s timely blog post about the need for Bishops sitting in the House of Lords to avoid party politics has got me thinking. Am I alone in noticing that the issue of House of Lords reform has almost completely...

When I think of the House of Lords, I think about trust, honour, nobility, honesty and integrity. The formal title of the House of Lords is:The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled.If a Peer's honour is found to be in question after an investigation carried out by Lords Interests sub committee, th...

This is the official YouTube Channel of the United States House of Representatives.It provides free access to video films and promotional materials from the parliamentary chamber of the American parliament. It includes YouTube channels from individual Congressional committees discussing US legislation, domestic and foreign policy. It is also possible to locate YouTube films from individual represe...

The public disgust at the Stygian Stables that is Parliament, has propelled Jack Straw (is this a bit of panic methinks) to rush through Legislation to flush the House of Lords through, of convicted criminals, tax evaders and corrupt peers that frame our Laws. We need a Constitutional Court to deal with the House of Commons as well.

The House of Lords has rejected 42 days internment for “terrorist” suspects by 309 votes to 118 - apparently the biggest defeat in the House of Lords in living memory. If proof was needed of the importance of an independent upper house, unaffected by the whims and whips of party politics, this is surely it.  Despite

Letters From A Tory has been crunching the numbers, and discovered that those in the House of Lords have nearly as highly a developed penchant for living high on the hog (on our money) as their loathsome Commons counterparts. Of course, if we knew that every single member of the House of Lords was spending all their time doing their duty to Parliament and the United Kingdom by working extremely ha...

Cross-posted from The Wardman Wire: With reform of the House of Lords back in the news following the latest scandals over who is in it and how they behave, now seems a good time to provide some background on its political make-up. Since political parties first emerged in British politics, the then wholly hereditary House of Lords

With reform of the House of Lords back in the news following the latest scandals over who is in it and how they behave, now seems a good time to provide some background on its political make-up. Since political parties first emerged in British politics, the then wholly hereditary House of Lords consistently had a very