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  1. This week, the last of the hereditary peers were expelled from the House of Lords. #JacobReesMogg reflects:

    youtu.be/qbMJeJAj9Rk?si=R76cvo

    When you think about it, through the last 100 years, the #HouseOfLords has been moving towards the model of the Canadian Senate; odd really, given that most Canadians have nothing good to say about our Senate.

    #Parliament #ukpol

  2. #Starmer has just made the #HouseOfLords even worse.

    In 1958, the Lords was a set of #HereditaryPeers & bishops. On Tuesday, the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill passed, making the Lords a bunch only of #LifePeers & bishops. 68 years from a club of #inbreds to a club of #cronies & donors.

    The #ParliamentAct1911 promised an elected upper house, but it never arrived. 115 years later, the so-called "#LabourParty" leaves bishops as the only independent Lords. This is not #democracy.

    #ukpol

  3. Lord #Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm

    #UK #Corruption

    Member of #HouseOfLords urged ministers to crack down on #PalestineAction at request of a #US #defence #company that #employs him as an adviser.

    Dannatt, 74, has sat in the Lords since 2011. He is now under investigation by the house authorities over two sets of allegations that he broke parliamentary rules that forbid #lobbying.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a

    #AntiCorruption #DemocracyNOW #bribes

  4. “The Lords may be quaint and historic, but it is constitutionally indefensible. It is one of only two parliaments in the world, along with Lesotho, to have hereditary members: there are 92 sitting by inherited right, 26 as leaders of a religious sect and dozens who have paid large sums to be members, often just for the title.”

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #HouseOfLords #Starmer #Labour #ConstitutionalReform

  5. OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material - Enlarge (credit: OpenAI)

    ChatGPT developer OpenAI recently ack... - arstechnica.com/?p=1994591 #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #houseoflords #newyorktimes #ailawsuits #microsoft #aiethics #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz#dall-e #openai #ailaw #ai #uk

  6. 🆕 Constitutional reform and the creation of a senate | Frances Crook

    We need a national debate about legislative and structural reform of our political system, including the potential creation of a senate in place of the House of Lords

    Read more 🔗 #ConstitutionalReform #HouseofLords
    yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politic

  7. #ICYMI earlier this year Dr David Scott and Dr Sarah Mortimer began our new blog series, Revolutionary Stuart Parliaments, looking into the politics behind the abolition of the House of Lords in 1649. Read the inaugural blog here: ow.ly/XRTs50KQwrz

    @histodons @histodon #Histodons #Stuarts #Parliament #HouseOfLords #17thCentury