BBC News Online: Special Report

The Peers: Nearly all-male, nearly all-white, nearly all-Christian
Composition of the House of Lords

How do other countries manage without Lords ?
Britain is the only country in the western world where political life is influenced by a significant number of people who were not elected but BORN into the job.

	Special Report Contents
	-	Space
	-	Mars Surveyor probe
	-	Education League Tables
	-	El Nino
	-	ISS
	-	Northern Ireland
	-	Whitbread yacht race
	-	Sport
	-	Louise Woodward case
	-	House of Lords
	-	Unabomber

Special Report Contents

• Space
• Mars Surveyor probe
• Education League Tables
• El Nino
• ISS
• Northern Ireland
• Whitbread yacht race
• Sport
• Louise Woodward case
• House of Lords
• Unabomber