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1. The veteran peeress swung her handbag and landed a sharp blow to the cyclist as he whizzed past outside the House of Lords.
2. That none of these competitively priced feudal relics has been discarded this week by an outraged peer or peeress only confirms their tendency to corrupt.
3. They‘ll tell him just what they thought about his chief executive, Labour peeress Baroness Young, pocketing an extra 24,000 on top of her 163,000 salary – while eight others helped themselves to bonuses averaging 10 per cent of their salaries.
4. One peeress recounts how, back in 1'86 when she was nominated for a peerage, she was told by Labour officials that if she had given more than 25,000 to the party she could not possibly be offered a place in the Lords.
5. One of my fellow interviewees was introduced as a journalist, the other as a Lib Dem peeress, and I as ‘a right–wing controversialist’. At least one of my opponents (if not both) could quite fairly have been described as a left–wing controversialist, but that would not have matched the presenter’s desire to ensure that I alone was labelled — doubtless as a health warning to the listeners — before I had opened my mouth.