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Over 50,000 letters sent to the “Lords spiritual”

14.03.2010 // by Guy Aitchison // View comments
The Bishops in the Lords will have had a bit of a shock over the last few days when they checked their inboxes. More »
Join our call for Bishops to back reform of the Lords

11.03.2010 // by George Gabriel // View comments
26 Bishops sit in the House of Lords as of right. They've been there since the time of Henry the VIII and show very little sign of moving - a constitutional set-up that leaves us in the inglorious company of Iran, and very few others. More »
Real reform of the Lords means giving ownership back to the people

05.03.2010 // by Guy Aitchison // View comments
David Cameron certainly knows how to stay one step ahead of the news agenda. Launching his draft manifesto on "Fixing our broken politics" last month, he warned of the "next big scandal waiting to happen" which has tainted our politics for too long: the issue of transparency and the "far-too-cosy relationship between politics, government, business and money". More »
Will the bishops buy into the Pledge?

24.02.2010 // by Guy Aitchison // View comments
Over at the blog of Ekklesia, the progressive religious network POWER2010 is partnered with, Jonathan Bartley has a mischievous post poking fun at the bishops in our unreformed House of Lords. More »
Why we need an elected upper house

01.02.2010 // by Robson Brown // View comments
A hundred years ago in 1910, the House of Lords in the UK forcefully tried to prevent the elected government, elected on a popular landslide, from introducing progressive taxation on the extremely wealthy, and a scheme of national insurance for the ill and injured. More »