Reflecting on the Independent Water Commission, headed up by Sir Jon Cunliffe, which two weeks ago published its interim ...

Questions, bills and debates: discover questions, debates and legislation in the House of Lords ...

Members of the House of Lords examine the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill at committee stage on Thursday 26.

Magna Carta is Latin for ‘great charter' and the term was first used in 1217 to distinguish it from the Charter of the Forest, a document that also set out limits on the king's administration, this ...

In the 1890s Stone's reputation as a photographer led him to travel the world. During this time he travelled with the Royal Astronomical Society to Brazil and also visited the West Indies, South ...

Charles Bradlaugh (1833 – 1891) was a Liberal MP for Northampton. He was an atheist and political activist, and founded the National Secular Society in 1866. When he came to the House of Commons as a ...

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“There is not a single river in the country that is not polluted”, Feargal tells Toby. He believes “a combination of colossal almighty failure of regulation and oversight” are responsible for an ...

The Palace of Westminster was designed not just to be a working building for the Lords and Commons but also to offer a striking panorama of British history. Everywhere in the building there are ...

This is the 26th edition of the Companion to the Standing Orders of the House of Lords since Sir John Shaw-Lefevre, then Clerk of the Parliaments, compiled the first edition in 1862. The Companion is ...