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Lords Diary: Baroness Owen – 'I’m here as a working peer'
Parliament
By Baroness Owen
Lords Diary: Baroness Owen – 'I’m here as a working peer'
Having been introduced into the Lords in July, I was advised by some very wise heads that the best way to learn the ropes is to be present for debates – to understand and get familiar with the processes.
Lords Diary: Lord Bird
Parliament
By Lord Bird
Lords Diary: Lord Bird
That day before last Christmas was important. I spent the morning at the National Gallery looking at Nicolas Poussin’s The Adoration of the Golden Calf.
Lords Diary: Lord Robertson
Parliament
By Lord Robertson
Lords Diary: Lord Robertson
Hogmanay on the Inner Hebridean island Islay should be a dream ticket. The west of Scotland island where I was born in the Port Ellen police station is a mecca for whisky experts and drinkers from all over the world.
Lord Diary: Lord Cormack
Political parties
By Lord Cormack
Lord Diary: Lord Cormack
For the first time in over two years I feel hopeful. Rishi Sunak has indeed brought a smile to my face and – after the two most memorable (and for all the wrong reasons) years in my 52 in Parliament – I have a spring in my step.
Lords Diary: Lord Austin
Parliament
By Lord Austin of Dudley
Lords Diary: Lord Austin
I spent the 10 days before Parliament returned on my first summer holiday for over five years. I waved goodbye to blustery autumn showers to ride my bike in the sun. Cycling is fantastic for not just physical health but mental wellbeing too.
Lords Diary: Lord Moynihan
Culture
By Lord Moynihan
Lords Diary: Lord Moynihan
The House of Lords has a long history of influence over United Kingdom sport and recreation policy. It was here in the summer of 1905 that Lord Desborough convened the first meeting of the British Olympic Association, which became influential in forming the rules and regulations of sport worldwide.
Lords Diary: Lord Janvrin
Parliament
By Lord Janvrin
Lords Diary: Lord Janvrin
Prorogation means a quieter week but includes a breakfast with Nicholas Coleridge who is heavily involved in the planning of the Platinum Jubilee and then a board committee meeting of the British Library.
Lords Diary: Lord Clement Jones
Economy
By Lord Clement-Jones
Lords Diary: Lord Clement Jones
Down the corridor in the Commons, early November was dominated by No 10’s Owen Paterson U-turn and in Glasgow by events at COP26 – but for me it was an opportunity to raise a number of issues relevant to innovation and the development of technology and the future of our creative industries. It started with the great news that Queen Mary University of London, whose council I chair, after many trials and tribulations, has agreed a property deal next to our Whitechapel campus with the Department of Health and Social Care. It paves the way for the development, with Barts Life Sciences, of a major research centre within a new UK Whitechapel Life Sciences Cluster.
Lords Diary: Viscount Ridley
Political parties
By Viscount Ridley
Lords Diary: Viscount Ridley
Last week saw only my fourth visit to the Lords from the north-east since the pandemic began.
Lords Diary: Baroness Grender
Communities
By Baroness Grender
Lords Diary: Baroness Grender
My week started with a peppercorn. No, really, stick with me on this one; a debate on a new Conservative bill to ditch ground rents.
Lord Diary: Natalie Bennett
Political parties
By Baroness Bennett
Lord Diary: Natalie Bennett
Baroness Bennett on a "dizzy" week of finance reform, feminist foreign policy, the smacking ban, and forest bathing