A View from Rural Wales (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Dragon's Eye back with Adrian Masters, a man of gentle demeanor and a probing inquisitor. Looking forward to seeing him bare his dragon's teeth during the series. Hope its not me or my party he's sinking them into. To start the new series off, who else but Lord Elis Thomas, Presiding Officer of the National Assembly. He dismissed the two twentieth century Prince of Wales investitures as political stunts,...
Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Sent by one of Lord Patel's many female admirers who retains the entertaining and juvenile belief that Mr Obama will, come November ,(f he is still alive) be beaten by Mr McCain (if he is still alive).
Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Lord Patel has played a small part in the history of Stilton Cheese manufacture. Cheese is a plastic substance (in the engineering not chemical sense) amd requires (like many cheese) when in store to be daily rotated to even out movement of the chese fromit's true cylindrical form. A freshly made Stilton cheese exudes both fats and salt. Until about 1965 a single cloth was used as a mat under
The F-Word Blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The number of female High Court judges is set to rise to "record levels", reports the Independent. While this is good news, don't get too excited - 85% of them are still men. Baroness Prashar, JAC [Judicial Appointments Commission] chairman...
PETRONA (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The House of Lords has reconvened after the recess in exciting times - some might say too exciting. The Peer bloggers are back too, on their Lords of the Blog. Here's Baroness Murphy on the latest reshuffle: "Perhaps I’m looking at the changes in Government with the jaundiced eye of someone who has seen far too many changes in senior and junior ministers before they have mastered their brief. One of...
The Herald (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Lord George Thomson, a minister in Harold Wilson's Labour Government and chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, has died.
Main and Central (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Part 2 In this week's Inside Iraq, Jasim interviews Lord David Owen, former British foreign secretary under PM Blair. They discuss the lessons learned from the Iraqi fiasco. One startling revelation was the fact that Lord Owen accuses Tony...
Mary Meets Dolly (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
As a follow up to Embryos and Elderly: duty to die , here is an An Open Letter to Baroness Warnock on Assisted Suicide by Rita Marker, a remarkable woman who has been fighting for the rights of the sick and elderly for decades.
Secondhand Smoke (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Rita Marker, the head of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide knows more about the politics and facts of the facilitated death agenda than anyone else on earth. In this "open letter" to Baroness Warnock, who SHS readers will recall recently renewed her call for the UK to accept a duty to die once one becomes a burden, Marker adopts a The Screwtape Letters approach, to explaining...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Lord George Thomson, a minister in Harold Wilson's Labour government, has died at the age of 87.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Lord George Thomson, a minister in Harold Wilson's government and chair of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, dies.
American Thinker (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
When she said people with Alzheimer's should be able to appoint someone to request euthanasia for them, Britain's leading medical ethicist, Baroness Mary Warnock, caused a firestorm of controversy.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Baroness Warnock, Britain’s leading expert on medical ethics and a vocal supporter of euthanasia, has said that it would be wrong to give immunity from prosecution to relatives who help terminally ill patients to die abroad.
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
"We are pleased to have demonstrated through the delivery of our first crude vegetable oil the potential of jatropha as a biofuel crop," said Lord Oxburgh, the former chairman of Shell who is now chairman of D1.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
In his address to the Conservative conference, Lord Trimble played to the audience and indulged in mischief when he questioned Scotland's "funding advantage" and
