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Andrew Taggart & Samuel Emery, with a foreword by Lord Norton

The House of Lords has often been subject to considerable criticism on a number of different grounds, and the sheer amount written on the subject of House of Lords reform illustrates that our upper house sits uneasily in our constitutional framework of a modern, democratic society. But despite the theoretical imperfections of the House of Lords, it is rarely criticised for what it does or the way it does it. Too little of the debate on House of Lords reform over the past decade or so has appreciated this simple and important fact.

The Bow Group welcomes the victory for the Conservative Party in The Bow Group's adopted London Assembly seat of Havering & Redbridge. This was one of the critical areas Boris had to win to be returned to City Hall.

He's barrel-shaped and middle-aged, with flapping tie and a head of hair like a mop. But when he popped by a gritty south London neighborhood recently, Mayor Boris Johnson was treated like a rock star. An excited crowd gathered at Croydon College, where the mayor opened a new wing. Teenage students and graying school officials alike clamored to have their photos taken with him. Passersby waved and shouted "Hey, Boris!"

The Bow Group's report, Race to the Top: the Experience of Black Students in Higher Education, produced in partnership with Elevation Networks and with sponsorship from Deloitte, has hit the headlines again with a feature being run in this morning's Independent.