The same peer-to-peer forces that have revolutionized retailing and business are now coming for our other social and political institutions.
Earl Grey had threatened to ask William IV to create further Whig peers, forcing the bill through the Lords; the Tories abstained from the vote instead.
But Shakespeare does suggest that a child unloved by his mother, mocked by his peers, forced to regard himself as a monster will develop certain compensatory psychological strategies, some of them both destructive and self-destructive.
His colleague Luciano Violante, ex-speaker of the lower house, had the same idea, until peer pressure forced him to test his campaigning skills in Turin, where the left is in trouble.Ministers too are joining the PR lists.
Alf Dubs, the Labour peer who forced the government this year into a U-turn on accepting child refugees, successfully getting his amendment included in the Immigration Act, said he was alarmed by the new regulations.
The intervention from Lord Kerslake, who was the most senior Whitehall mandarin until July 2014, will come as opposition and crossbench peers join forces against key aspects of the government's controversial housing and planning bill when it reaches the Lords on Tuesday.
Don't let peer pressure force you into declaring a major if you aren't ready.
Don't let friends, your partner, or peer pressure force you into having a sexual relationship before you are ready.
They have simply failed to clean up their balance-sheets in the way their American peers were forced to do by regulators.
