Monthly Archives: August 2018
Bank holiday caption competition
By popular demand (well, the request of Tony Sands) here is a another caption competition. The photograph is one a colleague took recently of me while I was busy working as well as listening to whatever it was he was … Continue reading
Sir Peter Tapsell
I was very sad to learn of the death of Sir Peter Tapsell. I had known him for over fifty years, ever since I corresponded with him when I was a young schoolboy and he was selected as parliamentary candidate … Continue reading
The value of parliamentarians
In a previous post, I raised the issue of how to value the work of the House of Lords. How does one ascribe monetary value to thousands of improvements achieved to measures passing through Parliament? In that post, I touched … Continue reading
Twenty years a peer…
I have previously posted about being approached to accept a peerage, as well as doing a post on selecting my title. The peerage itself took effect on ‘the forenoon of the first day in August’ 1998. I was introduced into … Continue reading
The Norton View 