Honouring Johnny Rotten and Ozzy Osbourne signals to younger and alternative communities that their cultural heroes are part of national history, not apart from it. It bridges generations, renewing ...

You read these never-ending debates over supposedly reforming the Upper House and it makes you wonder if anything will ever really change. It feels like an elaborate metaphor for the state of this ...

Keir Starmer has not been the luckiest general. But, in one respect, he has bested Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington will ...

The House of Lords is very old, but not quite continuous. In 1649, shortly after the execution of King Charles I, the ...

The House of Lords has backed a move to block the expulsion of hereditary peers from the upper chamber. Peers supported by ...

Concerns were raised that a select committee might be ‘a very good and highly-qualified talking shop’ but ignored by the ...

Peers have criticised the new front door to the House of Lords, after ministers revealed it cost £9.6m and still does not work properly. The Peers' Entrance began a multi-year security upgrade in 2023 ...

Read our privacy notice. A new front door at a main entrance to the House of Lords, that cost nearly £10 million, does not work, it has been disclosed.

A new front door at a main entrance to the House of Lords, that cost nearly £10 million, does not work, it has been disclosed. The project has been described as “a complete white elephant and a ...

The House of Lords canteen has served peers a “pride crumble” dessert with a rainbow-coloured topping. The River Restaurant in Parliament, which caters for peers and other staff on the ...