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The best deer deterrent? Radio 4

26 July 2025 9:00 am

Behind the latest push for recognition of a Palestinian state – even though there is no agreement of what it…

Peerless: the purge of the hereditaries

12 July 2025 9:00 am

The House of Lords is very old, but not quite continuous. In 1649, shortly after the execution of King Charles…

Good Lords: the House is losing some of the best

12 July 2025 9:00 am

Keir Starmer has not been the luckiest general. But, in one respect, he has bested Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington…

Leave our Lords alone

12 April 2025 9:00 am

Within a few months, the constitution that has served this country so well for hundreds of years will yet again…

How to be a Lord

29 March 2025 9:00 am

At the end of my first day at the House of Lords, I staggered out with so many books and…

Can I be cancelled twice?

4 January 2025 9:00 am

One of the biggest regrets of my life was saying yes when Jo Johnson asked if I wanted to be…

Peer review

22 August 2015 9:00 am

Something needs to be done about the overstuffed House of Lords