The Law Lords (technically "Lords of Appeal") are senior judges who form in effect the Supreme Court for the UK. By virtue of their office they are life peers and can vote in the House of Lords. Most hereditary peers have had their right to sit in the Lords removed by recent legislation. In effect the House of Lords is now appointed (like the Canadian Senate) although certain persons hold seats there ex officio (the senior bishops for example).
Terrorism in the UK
It's not that long ago that the IRA was blowing stuff up but to suggest that potential radical Islamic terrorism is at State of Emergency level is fairly ridiculous.
Churchill
As so often his rhetoric is somewhat distant from his actions. Nazi sympathisers (e.g. the Mosleys) were detained without trial. Also any number of things were criminalized under the "Defence of the Realm Act". One woman was sentenced to six months in prison for saying that "Churchill was no better than Hitler"; a sentiment that was widely held early in the war by working class people who rememembered his spells as Home Secretary and Chancellor.
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The Law Lords (technically "Lords of Appeal") are senior judges who form in effect the Supreme Court for the UK. By virtue of their office they are life peers and can vote in the House of Lords. Most hereditary peers have had their right to sit in the Lords removed by recent legislation. In effect the House of Lords is now appointed (like the Canadian Senate) although certain persons hold seats there ex officio (the senior bishops for example).
Terrorism in the UK
It's not that long ago that the IRA was blowing stuff up but to suggest that potential radical Islamic terrorism is at State of Emergency level is fairly ridiculous.
Churchill
As so often his rhetoric is somewhat distant from his actions. Nazi sympathisers (e.g. the Mosleys) were detained without trial. Also any number of things were criminalized under the "Defence of the Realm Act". One woman was sentenced to six months in prison for saying that "Churchill was no better than Hitler"; a sentiment that was widely held early in the war by working class people who rememembered his spells as Home Secretary and Chancellor.