As I write these words and watch them grow into sentences, I am living the final hours of my fifties.…
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Lord Acton: Hereditary peer who was instrumental in ending the inherited right to vote in the House of Lords
Although a hereditary peer, Richard Acton was one of the prime movers of Lords reform that in 1999 led to…
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“The facts are simple enough. If we had left the olive groves and the cotton fields and the oil wells…
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