house of lords in comment and analysis
Leader: ID cards victory for silicon.com campaign
Leader Today represents something of a landmark day in silicon.com's ongoing ID Cards on Trial campaign following the savage defeat inflicted on the flawed legislation by peers in the House of Lords on Monday evening. [17 Jan 2006]
Time to fix the flawed Snooping Bill
Comment This week the House of Lords takes the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (aka 'Snooping') Bill to committee stage, a final opportunity to reshape a piece of legislation that deals with the interception and decryption of information sent through... [12 Jun 2000]
silicon.com says no to Snooping Bill
Comment So what happened when the RIP Bill had its second reading in the House of Lords this week? But does that leave us to conclude the Lords have no idea of the significance of this Bill? If those Lords present don't fully grasp the implications of this... [26 May 2000]
Leader: Don't be fooled by Blair's "cardboard" ID compromise
Leader This "compromise" centres on the amendments to the ID cards bill by the House of Lords last month in which peers defeated the government plan to make it compulsory for people to submit their biometric details for the National Identity Register... [10 Feb 2006]
Leader: Why public support for ID cards is falling
Leader The government, unsurprisingly, claims it has successfully made the case for ID cards after MPs voted by a narrow margin in the House of Commons to overturn amendments made by the House of Lords that would have derailed the ID cards bill. [13 Mar 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.03.06
Round-Up The Lords pick the spin perfectly and send it back ferociously, though spectators fearing whiplash from observing this to-and-fro get no reprieve as Clarke steps up to the challenge and fires a return to the back of the court, laden once more with... [24 Mar 2006]
Leader: ID cards fight must go on
Leader Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons and the House of Lords had been united in opposing the introduction of ID cards until the climb-down, presented as a 'compromise', finally let the government off the hook. [31 Mar 2006]
Editor's Blog: Lords above!
Comment So, in the absence of much interest from our elected representatives it has, perhaps surprisingly, fallen to the House of Lords to champion reform in this area. So in the past week the Lords have announced they are having another crack, with a new... [27 Feb 2008]
The "Snooping Bill": last chance for change
Comment Last Thursday, the RIP Bill passed peacefully through its second reading in the House of Lords. On 12 June the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill enters full house committee stage - realistically the last opportunity to influence the... [01 Jun 2000]
The Yearly Round-Up: 22.12.05
Round-Up While Home Secretary Charles Clarke - and his predecessor the scandal-prone David Blunkett - would have us believe these cards will cure all manner of society's ills, the House of Lords isn't quite so convinced. [22 Dec 2005]
Of Gore, Hague and more dot-com disasters
Comment They gave the speeches, but milling around the room were a David Seaman-sized handful of Tory big cheese MPs, including Michael Ancaram, chairman of the Tory Party, and a sprinkling of lords, including Lord Saatchi. [09 Nov 2000]
Leader: Time to rethink cyber crime priorities
Leader Just this month a House of Lords committee urged the government to do more to tackle e-crime - or risk losing public confidence in the security of the internet. We're often warned of the menace of cyber crime to UK business - and hear plenty of... [24 Aug 2007]
Editor's Blog: Should everybody be a security company?
Comment Schneier's words echo those of Lord Broers, the chair of the House of Lords science and technology committee. He is now an employee of BT though it seems a job at such a monolith has done nothing to dampen his enthusiasm or tendency for the... [25 Apr 2007]
Curtain call: last chance for IR35?
Comment In fact opposition reached such a strong level that when the Welfare Reforms and Pensions Bill, which contained the IR35 legislation, reached the House of Lords in September, it was thrown out. The organisation's aim was to fight in the corner of... [26 Jun 2000]
Leader: Watch the ID card retreat
Leader He even hinted that the provision for secondary legislation before the cards can be made compulsory could be done away with because it is likely the House of Lords would vote against it. Signs of a definite change of gear in the government's ID... [04 Aug 2005]
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