Politics is “a noble calling”. And in praise of Abraham Lincoln, Edmund Burke and Louis Armstrong.
“So you don’t arrive at a decision because you’re a barrister and therefore you favour the bar or because you’re a solicitor and therefore you favour the solicitors’ firms.”
The two main parties are making a big mistake by pitching their appeal at supporters of two minor ones – UKIP and the Greens.
Whether English votes for English laws gets through the Commons or not, we need a constitutional convention to give wider reform legitimacy.
For all that her works were about death, her true topics were life and love.
Is it fascination? Or a reaction to religion’s influence? Either way, a more tolerant approach would be welcome.
And: Clegg – where is he? Simmonds – what’s he on? ISIS: they have no Islamic state and we should bomb them. Plus: The new peerages – on the whole, a mistake.
Not acting on the terms of the Coalition Agreement isn’t simply a breach – it’s poor politics.
Whatever your preferred system for appointing Peers, the simple fact is there are far too many of them already.
What would the result have been of a 1914/15 poll – in a Britain that sometimes seemed to be on the verge of civil war?
Peers should vote at the start of each parliament by secret ballot using the single transferable voting (STV) system.