They like it there
Ian Aitken, 5 August 1993
Making Aristocracy Work: The Peerage and the Political System in Britain 1884-1914
by Andrew Adonis.
Oxford, 311 pp., £35, May 1993,0 19 820389 6 Show More
by Andrew Adonis.
Oxford, 311 pp., £35, May 1993,
The House of Lords at Work: A Study Based on the 1988-89 Session
edited by Donald Shell and David Beamish.
Oxford, 420 pp., £45, March 1993,0 19 827762 8 Show More
edited by Donald Shell and David Beamish.
Oxford, 420 pp., £45, March 1993,
“... unreformed and unabolished, for a good few years. That isn’t necessarily good news. Shell and Beamish’s meticulous study establishes that for all its pretensions and protestations, the House of Lords isn’t really all that good at what it does – whatever that may be. In fact, Shell concludes that it is overwhelmingly the Government which benefits ... ”