The House of Lords: Nine Hundred Unelected People Who Are Somehow More Useful Than Expected | Britain’s Second Chamber: Hereditary Peers, Life Peers, Bishops, Crossbenchers, and the Century-Long Reform That Is Nearly Finished
Britain Decides 700 Years of Aristocratic Governance Was the Real Problem All Along Five Quick Observations Before We Begin The same Parliament that still has bishops voting on laws has concluded that earls are the dangerous part of the system. Britain apparently believes the path to modern democracy is replacing centuries of aristocrats with people appointed by whichever Prime Minister had a good lunch that day. Reformers say hereditary seats…
The House of Lords Reform That Is Always Happening and Never Quite Finished | Life Peers, Hereditary Peers, Bishops, the 1999 Act, the 2024 Act, and the Second Chamber That Has Been Under Reform Since Approximately the Edwardian Period
