Christopher Howarth Your original post argued HPs were 'from a wide variety of backgrounds'. So I suppose we are both guilty of pedestrianism.
Christopher Howarth - All current sitting HPs are men
- 45% of those HPs elected in by-elections up to 2022 went to Eton
- A majority (47) of current HPs sit as Conservatives.
Defend the HP system if you want but bizarre to assert they are a particularly diverse or independent constituency.
Stephen Bush Raskolnikov S.O. Davies really ought to have a decent biographer ... Jeffrey Jones@OldParish
Raskolnikov Tom Bell Matthew Which I infer might have been the position of Thomas de la Mare but I am not sure x.com/thebrieftweet/…
S. I. Rubinstein The Spectator 'He commits his crimes at a distance, filling in forms and phoning suppliers.'
And ofc the choices the film makes about what to leave un-shown reinforces this (flawed) logic re Höss. He left that house everyday and went to work next door, where there was nothing banal about him.
Raskolnikov Tom Bell Matthew Thomas de la Mare (There might also be international treaty issues, far outside my ken.)
Christopher Howarth James Dawson Raskolnikov It’s the politicians chopping and changing who have wrecked the country. More quangos please untrammelled by politicians.
James Mullen Michael Foran Raskolnikov Please may I ask what you mean by thinner - I mean the the idea of clear, stable prospective rules etc
Raskolnikov Tom Bell Matthew Thomas de la Mare I don’t remember seeing authority to say the rules of stat interp for deeming vary between areas/disciples, so as to conclude the analogy with tax cases is “silly”. I think Bennion applies the principles generally. But I think there may be arguments to distinguish re Rwanda.
Christopher Howarth Raskolnikov Yet you’ve posted no evidence of their experience, knowledge or interests, and the evidence of background and education runs counter to your claim.
Michael Foran Raskolnikov That being said, this is the opposing view, which you evidently disagree with.
Raskolnikov Robert Crowcroft Gavin Phillipson Until a corrupt PM decides to stuff the Lords full of cronies. The House of Horrors is not a check or a balance while the power to decide its make up is with the Executive.
Christopher Howarth Raskolnikov No, they are mainly landowners, very few entrepreneurs, academics, women or different ethnicities. I know several and they are lovely people. But so are the many people who should be there on merit.
James Dawson Jim Dixon FRSA Raskolnikov Quangocratic technocracy? You think we lack these people and they have done a good job?
Christopher Howarth Jim Dixon FRSA Raskolnikov Then we should set up a system with ex officio peers from civic society eg BMA, CBI, TUC, universities, etc, etc rather than political appointees or a handful of aristocrats