Since the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 was enacted, over eighty peers have utilised its provisions to retire from the House. This is now the most extensive route by which the House loses member...
The House of Lords has lost a number of members through death over the past few months. The Commons has also just lost a former senior member in the form of Sir Peter Tapsell. He was Father o...
http://lordsoftheblog.net/2018/08/20/loss-of-sir-peter-tapsell/
Christian Healing UK is bringing together a range of organizations and advisors on healing, across the denominations. It follows the example of Jesus, the Christ, God’s Messiah. He devoted mu...
http://lordsoftheblog.net/2018/08/16/good-news-for-the-uk-and-the-world/
All too often, aggressors and those who want to establish illegal “facts on the ground” take advantage of the month of August, hoping that their misdeeds may escape notice. Against this backg...
http://lordsoftheblog.net/2018/07/24/positive-thoughts-for-the-holidays-and-media-silly-season/
There are about 110,000 divorces in England and Wales annually, and financial orders are made by the court in about one-third of them. Some are negotiating their own settlements, induced by ...
http://lordsoftheblog.net/2018/07/23/the-divorce-financial-provision-bill-2017/
There is to be an annual Windrush Day. Noting the acclaim for the contributions made by the Windrush generation, and the remorse over the way they were treated, put me in mind of an earlier gener...
These are being held under a State of Emergency. This gives the Government almost unlimited powers of arrest and control, at a time when it already dominates the media. The People’s Democra...
I spoke on this in Lord Steel of Aikwood’s debate on 7 June. As far as I know, I’m the only person to make the point that Israelis have long enjoyed full self-determination. Palestinians ha...
http://lordsoftheblog.net/2018/06/15/self-determination-for-the-palestinian-people/
This body is composed of seven distinguished judges from Europe, who are independent of governments. The Tribunal was founded in Bologna (Italy) in 1979. It took evidence in March in Paris abou...
http://lordsoftheblog.net/2018/05/30/the-permanent-peoples-tribunal/
In a post on my blog a couple of years ago, I drew attention to the fact that some Baronesses who previously had been made Dames were still referred to on occasion by the BBC as Dames. Baro...