Letter of the week: The bloated Lords
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Why shouldn’t Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe get a seat in the House of Lords?
As a woman who has endured the kind of trauma most of us can barely imagine, she would bring a…
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The young paying for the old’s mistakes speaks volumes about the House of Lords
A new report, written by 12 peers with an average age of 71, suggests that the financial burden of the…
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If you want to clean up this sleazy parliament, start by listening to Billy Bragg
Reforming the House of Lords could be disarmingly simple.
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Peers reviewed: the failings of the House of Lords
Much good work is done in the Lords, but the upper chamber remains a symbol of our crumbling political system.
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Should we abolish the House of Lords, or reform it?
Liberal, Labour and Conservative governments have all sailed into the Bermuda Triangle of Lords reform, though few have completed the…
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