House of Lords

Britain will be worse without hereditary peers

The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic

Artillery Row
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles

Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable

Artillery Row
The principles of peers

Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers

Artillery Row
The false filibuster framing

There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill

Artillery Row
Class war in the upper house

The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism

Columns
Killing the bill

Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.

Artillery Row
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism

A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic

Artillery Row
Why the Lords can vote against assisted dying

It is right and proper for the Lords to challenge deeply problematic legislation

Artillery Row
Keir Starmer is endangering democracy

He is attacking critics while rewarding loyalists

Artillery Row
Assisted suicide is not more important than the law

Charlie Falconer shouldn’t be allowed to bully the House of Lords to its own assisted suicide

Artillery Row