Monthly Archives: June 2011
The week in Westminster…
This week I am based almost wholly in Westminster, a combination of parliamentary business and the fact that students still working on projects are my students in Westminster. The teaching semester has finished in Hull. On Monday, it was a … Continue reading
Keeping it short
Lord Grenfell As some readers may have noticed, I was followed in last week’s debate on the Government’s proposals for the House of Lords by Lord Grenfell: “Lord Grenfell:My Lords, following the noble Lord, Lord Norton of Louth, I am … Continue reading
Summer writing
I presently have four book chapters completed and awaiting publication (on the Englishness of Westminster, Margaret Thatcher as Leader of the Opposition, Constitutional Change and the Tensions of Liberal Democracy, and Coalition Cohesion) as well as an article, on a … Continue reading
Speaker’s Lectures
The lecture on Enoch Powell is no longer available on the BBC iPlayer site. It has been added to the BBC Democracy Live site which has all the lectures given so far in the series of Speaker’s Lectures to mark the … Continue reading
Debating the future of the Lords
This week, we had a two-day debate in the Lords on the Government’s White Paper on the Draft House of Lords Reform Bill. I was in the chamber for most of the debate, hence the light blogging this week. Perhaps … Continue reading
Powell Lecture on iPlayer
For anyone who would like to see the lecture on Enoch Powell, it is now available from BBC Parliament on iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0122hdn/1911_Centenary_Lecture_Enoch_Powell/
Joint Committee on the House of Lords Reform Draft Bill
Lord Richard As some readers have noticed, The Times on Friday carried a report identifying some of the peers who are to be nominated to serve on the Joint Committee on the House of Lords Reform Draft Bill. It reported that I … Continue reading
Speaker’s Lecture
I delivered my lecture on Enoch Powell last night as one of the lectures organised by the Speaker, John Bercow, to mark the centenary of the passage of the 1911 Parliament Act. I focused on Enoch Powell as parliamentarian and what … Continue reading
That’s a new one….
As regular readers will know, I get letters addressed in all sorts of ways. However, today I received one that began ‘Dear Baroness Lord Norton’. Hmm, not sure how to respond. Any suggestions?
What is the point of…
Smiling too much to be Victor Meldrew What people do with their bodies and their lives is entirely a matter for them – I am not in the business of dictating what other people do – but what exactly is … Continue reading
