Blogs about: Baroness Dsouza
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Major Wisdom
I usually invite a guest speaker to our weekly crossbench meetings and yesterday it was Sir John Major. He now spends a lot of his working life addressing audiences all over the world on topics rangin… more →
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Major Wisdom
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baronessdsouza wrote 4 days ago: I usually invite a guest speaker to our weekly crossbench meetings and yesterday it was Sir John Maj … more →
The range of interests...............
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baronessdsouza wrote 1 week ago: As has already been made clear,the Queen’s Speech is followed by five days of pure debate … more →
An Emotional Week
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baronessdsouza wrote 2 weeks ago: It is almost unbearable when the names of young men and women killed in Afghanistan are read out in … more →
A return of 'free speech'
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baronessdsouza wrote 4 weeks ago: The freedom of expression question comes up once again in the Coroners and Justice bill which will h … more →
The Privy Council
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baronessdsouza wrote 1 month ago: I was appointed a Privy Counsellor last July – a very curious honour. It goes back to the time … more →
An end to safe haven in the UK?
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baronessdsouza wrote 1 month ago: Devotees of this blog may know that we are battling with the Coroners and Justice bill. An important … more →
The Lords Resume - and reforms
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Clive Soley wrote 1 month ago: Monday sees the return of Peers to the chamber of the House. The recess always leaves the House feel … more →
Absentee Lords.
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baronessdsouza wrote 1 month ago: Many of you will have read of the Tory plan to ship in a large number of peers if they win the 2010 … more →
Back in the Saddle....almost.
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baronessdsouza wrote 1 month ago: A week to go before the House reconvenes and it promises to be a sticky time before the new Session … more →
Genocide and the UK Courts
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baronessdsouza wrote 3 months ago: There is a strange anomaly in UK law that allows those suspected of genocide and other serious crime … more →
Rwandan Genocide - 15 years on
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baronessdsouza wrote 4 months ago: I visited Rwanda just a few months after the horrific slaughter of approximately 800,000 people in 1 … more →
Peers mourn the loss of "wise and generous" Lord Kingsland
ispystrangers wrote 4 months ago: The Leader of the House of Lords led tributes to Lord Kingsland yesterday. Baroness Royall described … more →
Children in the Chamber
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baronessdsouza wrote 4 months ago: Today was a red letter one! About 250 children, or young adults might be more appropriate, poured in … more →
Lord Waddington defends freedom of speech amendment to gay hate law
ispystrangers wrote 4 months ago: A former Home Secretary has convinced the House of Lords to reject an attempt to remove his amendmen … more →
Vetting Nominations to the House of Lords
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baronessdsouza wrote 5 months ago: The House of Lords Appointments Commission (www.lordsappointments.gov.uk) not only selects, accordi … more →
A Hereditary Peer By-election
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baronessdsouza wrote 6 months ago: Sadly, Viscount Bledisloe, an eminent barrister, died on 12 May. Since he was a hereditary peer, a b … more →
A week-end in Kabul
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baronessdsouza wrote 6 months ago: I have just returned from a lightning visit to Afghanistan to see the school I have been supporting … more →
Peers' Expertise
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baronessdsouza wrote 6 months ago: Last Wednesday a small group of us went in the early morning to the Whitechapel Gallery to see some … more →
The Nitty-Gritty of Law Making
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baronessdsouza wrote 7 months ago: Bills have a long gestation – not uncommonly two years during which time a bill team from the … more →
