Britain’s House of Lords...None of its 800 members are elected, and 92 of its seats are hereditary. How is this possible today?

 Britain’s House of Lords is one of the world’s largest legislative assemblies – only China’s National People’s Congress is bigger. None of its 800 members are elected, and 92 of its seats are hereditary. How is this possible today?

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Arcane, hereditary, all-male — and at the heart of British democracy
How a small blue-bloode

London’s bridges are falling down

 Cockneys have long joked that north and south London are separate cities. Bridge closures mean that increasingly they are

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London’s bridges are falling down
It is unclear whom to blame—and that is the reason for the problem

The lamps are going out all over Britain, the aim is to save money

 

Oddly, the people who care most about climate change are most opposed

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The lamps are going out all over Britain
Overwhelmingly the aim is to save money