Reasons to be here

[smokingboot]

It's unfashionable to say it but those old mad farts in the House of Lords have done us proud.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1517366,00.html

I take my hat off to them.

Comments

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

The most terrifying thing to approach the House of Lords is a modern haircut. They all seem to suffer from advanced stages of wildly eccentric, often defecting hair. Academics tend towards a less severe version of this.

I am used to considering the House of Lords as a ridiculous anachronism with no place in a modern democracy. But democracy without education is as bad as any other tyrant, and God knows, we despise teachers in this country. In a time of non-thought and hysteria to the point of injustice, I am very relieved at the work the Lords have done.