Brits ‘uncomfortable with religious privilege’, polling suggests Research finds public oppose CofE privileges, state-funded faith schools, circumcision and non-stun slaughter Read More »

www.secularism.org.uk/news/2026/03... - from @anthonymcintyre.bsky.social “Lynx” #ChurchOfEngland #Religion #Politics #HouseOfLords

Bishop of Southwark expresses doubts over assisted-dying Bill THE Bishop of Southwark, the Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, was among the speakers who last week expressed further doubts over the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill when it was debated in the House of Lords. Bishop Chessun raised the prospect...

The Bishop of #Southwark, the Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, was among the speakers who last week expressed further doubts over the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill when it was debated in the #HouseofLords ⚖️

#Assisteddying #churchhouse #churchnews

The House of Lords Now that Parliament as voted to remove the remaining hereditary peers, what will be the overall future of the Chamber

One of my two latest Substack articles. The future of the House of Lords #HouseofLords open.substack.com/pub/paulburg...

Failure of 'assisted dying' Bill proves The Whip Line right AGAIN If you aren’t recommending The Whip Line to everyone you know already, this should persuade you.

The Assisted Dying Bill has stalled — and it proves The Whip Line's point: you can’t rush flawed legislation through Parliament with moral pressure. Scrutiny did its job.
#AssistedDyingBill #HouseOfLords #UKPolitics #Democracy #TheWhipLine
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It’s outrageous that we can't kick out Lords. Sign now to demand an elected second chamber It takes 30 seconds

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Why is waiting for them to resign the only option? Demand an elected #HouseOfLords, so we can decide who's kicked out of our parliament. It’s time voters, not patronage and privilege, decide who sits in our second chamber
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Patrick Blower @blowercartoons on #SadiqKhan #HouseofLords #LTN @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Professor Catherine Barnard Provides expert testimony to House of Lords on post-brexit legal alignment

This week @cbarnard.bsky.social (Trinity) provided expert testimony to the @houseoflords.parliament.uk European Affairs Committee on the complex legal "spectrum" of dynamic alignment between UK and EU law.

Read more and watch the session:
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#Brexit #EULaw #HouseOfLords #UKPolitics

Two hereditary peers allowed to keep ceremonial roles! #news #worldnews #uknews #uk #peers #hereditary #houseoflords #ukpolitics

#Food4Thought ➡️ #HouseOfLords ⬇️

Her Voice in the House Government Podcast · Updated twice weekly · Her Voice in the House shines a light on the women shaping the future of the House of Lords. Each episode features candid conversations with female Peers fr...

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Good to hear @carmensmith.bsky.social on Her Voice in the House, the new(ish), excellent, podcast

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Graphic: Friday 27 March in the House of Lords

🕙 Line by line check of the #TerminallyIllAdultsBill continues in #HouseOfLords from 10am.

➡️ Find out more and watch online https://orlo.uk/mLRUV

Member speaking in the chamber, with date graphic.

🕚 #HouseOfLords from 11am includes:

🟥 investigation of fraud at HBOS
🟥 antisemitic arson attack in Golders Green
🟥 #PensionSchemesBill
🟥 #EnglishDevolutionBill
🟥 UK's civil preparedness for war

➡️ See full schedule and watch online
https://orlo.uk/0Kejg

Let’s Rethink The Lords: The Unspoken Burden This feels like a natural pause point — but not an ending. Up to now, we’ve spent a lot of time circling ethics. Not because it’s the only problem with the House of Lords, but because it’s one of the places where the strain in the system shows up most clearly. Ethical questions keep landing in the Lords. Not by design.

Ethics isn’t the only thing the Lords has absorbed by default.
Expertise and memory went there too — quietly.
That matters.
#LetsRethink #HouseOfLords #Governance

Removing the hereditary peers from the #HouseofLords is a start, a removal fought hard by the Tories. Enough Efforts to reform the Lords have been stymied since 1911. 26 bishops will retain their seats in the House of Lords

In #HouseofLords lot of @greenparty.org.uk work to spread the word about

Wednesday 25 March, member speaking in the Lords chamber

🕒 #HouseOfLords from 3pm includes:    

🟥 small boat deaths
🟥 continuity of fuel supplies
🟥 #CrimeandPolicingBill
🟥 #ChildrensBill

➡️ See full schedule
https://orlo.uk/O3AxT

Former PMs say they use subsidy only for public duties after Boris Johnson revelations Gordon Brown calls for change to rules as he and other ex-leaders say they do not use allowance for commercial work

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... What About Accountability & Consequences? #Investigate #BorisFiles #BorisTrump #RussianBanks #HouseOfLords #LondonGradLaundromatRacket #PropertyRackets #EtonSchoolRussianRules #TrumpsEpsteinFiles DISGUST #ChildSexTrafficking #RealEstateRUSmoneyLanderingRacket

Bishops express concern for the vulnerable in latest assisted-dying debate THE Bishop of Newcastle, Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, expressed concern last Friday for those with “additional vulnerability to coercion” when it comes to assisted dying — “especially due to cultural and religious factors”. Addressing peers as they conti...

The Bishop of Newcastle, Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, expressed concern on Friday for those with “additional vulnerability to coercion” when it comes to assisted dying — “especially due to cultural and religious factors”

#assisteddying #houseoflords #churchnews

The United Kingdom’s Decriminalization of Abortion: What the United States Can Learn from Abortion Criminalization in a Global Context - O'Neill The O’Neill Institute believes that the law is a fundamental tool for solving critical health problems.

Useful international perspective on last week's #HouseofLords abortion vote, with reminder this is decriminalising women, not abortion

oneill.law.georgetown.edu/the-united-k...

Graphic with image of Lords chamber

🕝 #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:    

🟥 accessibility of public transport
🟥 reduction in government spending
🟥 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill

➡️ See full schedule https://orlo.uk/fxVl1

House of Lords thwarts mandation Plans to force UK defined contribution pension schemes to allocate specified funds to UK growth assets have been thwarted by the House of Lords.

🚨 “Pension funds are not tools of government policy. They exist to deliver the strongest possible outcomes for savers," says deVere's @nigeljgreen.bsky.social 💼📉

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#Pensions #Investing #UKPolitics #Finance #AssetManagement #HouseOfLords

House of Lords thwarts mandation Plans to force UK defined contribution pension schemes to allocate specified funds to UK growth assets have been thwarted by the House of Lords.

🚨 “Pension funds are not tools of government policy. They exist to deliver the strongest possible outcomes for savers," says deVere's @nigeljgreen.bsky.social 💼📉

institutionalassetmanager.co.uk/house-of-lor...

#Pensions #Investing #UKPolitics #Finance #AssetManagement #HouseOfLords

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Still plenty of time to apply to work with us in #HouseofLords as a social media officer: F/T and either London-based or remote. Please share around
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Lords chamber

🕜 #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:

🟥 financial assistance to Ukraine
🟥 migraine care
🟥 #PensionsBill

➡️ See full schedule www.parliament.uk/business/new...

Let’s Rethink The Lords: Refining the house. Up to now, we’ve mostly been talking around the House of Lords rather than straight at it. We’ve looked at how ethical questions drifted into it, why that happened without anyone really planning it, and what might change if ethical reasoning had a clearer home of its own. Which brings us to the point in the conversation where someone inevitably leans back and says:

If the Lords stopped carrying everything, it might finally make sense again.
Here’s what separating roles could change.
#LetsRethink #HouseOfLords #Reform

Friday 20 March, debate in the House of Lords chamber

🕙 Line by line check of the #TerminallyIllAdultsBill continues in #HouseOfLords from 10am.

➡️ Find out more and watch online https://orlo.uk/ogyTy

At this pace, it would take over 20 years to get through all the amendments.

That’s not scrutiny - that’s filibustering. 👇

#AssistedDying #HouseOfLords #Politics

The #HouseOfLords was effectively abolished during the #EnglishCivilWar due to a Commons act from #ThisDayInHistory in 1649. During the Restoration that was ignored, so the UK still has that ridiculous body — only now it's largely appointed, feeding partisan power & corruption.

Lebanon: Israel must halt attacks on healthcare workers, medical facilities and first responders Responding to the killings and injuries of dozens of healthcare workers and first responders in Lebanon since 2 March 2026, amid escalating attacks by the Israeli military and its allegations – withou...

#HouseofLords: Couldn't get in on question on Israel's attacks on Lebanon, but would have asked about attacks on healthcare workers and first responders, including awful "double tap" attacks
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Climate Driven Flood Risks Threaten to Isolate Rail Communities Across England, OS Analysis Warns | Rail Technology Magazine England’s rail network faces escalating disruption risks as climate‑related flooding intensifies, with new analysis from Ordnanc

#HouseofLords talking now about railways and flooding: this study records how 20% of England's entire network at risk

www.railtechnologymagazine.com/articles/cli...