Honours system
Rebuild the spire but spare the trees | Brief letters
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Letters
19, Feb, 2021 @4:41 PM
Paramedic in new year honours list calls for global health equality
Nich Woolf spent eight months caring for people in Vanuatu, one of the world’s most remote communities
Mattha Busby
01, Jan, 2021 @6:51 PM
A bridge too far for the renaming game? | Brief letters
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Letters
01, Jan, 2021 @5:26 PM
Number of people rejecting Queen's honours doubles in past decade
Exclusive: hundreds reject knighthoods and MBEs as unease around empire and favours grows
Mattha Busby
01, Dec, 2020 @3:06 PM
Boris Johnson and Evgeny Lebedev: a decade of politics, parties and peerages
Pair have been friends since 2009, but security concerns were raised because of the Russian tycoon’s father, a one-time Moscow spy
Luke Harding and Dan Sabbagh
21, Oct, 2020 @1:00 PM
John Sentamu peerage snub criticised as 'institutional prejudice'
Britain’s first black archbishop has not been given Lords seat though his predecessor was
Harriet Sherwood
18, Oct, 2020 @3:30 PM
Mary Berry in line for damehood in Queen's birthday honours list
Coronavirus key workers and volunteers also to be included in 2020 list, say reports
Amy Walker
04, Oct, 2020 @2:10 PM
The Queen strips disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein of CBE
The jailed former movie mogul is removed from the roll of honour of the award given to him in 2004
Staff and agencies
18, Sep, 2020 @1:06 PM
The House of Lords is absurd because it suits MPs to keep it that way
Boris Johnson’s shameless honours list is just a particularly blatant demonstration of parliament’s scorn for democratic legitimacy
Andrew Rawnsley
09, Aug, 2020 @7:45 AM
Does parliament really want to be a squalid haven for those who abuse power? | Catherine Bennett
The failure to suspend the Tory MP accused of rape is a mark of dire Commons’ standards
Catherine Bennett
09, Aug, 2020 @7:00 AM
Boris Johnson 'still committed to Lords reduction' despite 36 peerages
PM has added second-highest number of new peers to upper house in more than 20 years
Peter Walker and Ben Quinn
03, Aug, 2020 @2:30 PM
Boris Johnson's list of lords is a disgrace | Simon Jenkins
The way members of our second chamber are chosen casts a pall of corruption over Westminster, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
Simon Jenkins
03, Aug, 2020 @1:12 PM
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