ANDREW PIERCE: Leftie peer’s been lording it for years 

When former trade union firebrand Tony Woodley rejected the offer of a peerage in August, it seemed like a fitting act of solidarity with the proletariat by a Left-winger who had once been a Vauxhall Motors shop steward. But within weeks the former General Secretary of Unite had had a change of heart and took … Read more

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Look who’s lording it with the aristos… Liver Bird Beryl’s lad 

Belgravia Rating: Celebrity Murder Mystery Rating: How outdated it all seems, the emphasis on good breeding and the reverence shown to sons and nephews of earls in the Victorian London of Belgravia (ITV).  It wouldn’t happen now, eh? But the aristocracy of tellyland is just as convoluted and interwoven as the family trees in Burke’s … Read more