If successful, he would join the House as a cross-bench peer, without formal party affiliation.
1958 – The Life Peerages Act creates a new class of peer without hereditary rights.
It is more likely that it is suspended occasionally to give MI5 the chance to spy on a particular MP or peer, without any announcement being made.
A promising technical approach is inspired by the digital currency Bitcoin, which has made it feasible for people to make digital payments peer to peer, without a central bank or credit card company as an intermediary.
In 1972 a university-educated man aged 25-34 could expect to earn 22% more than a peer without a degree, according to the Urban Institute, a think-tank.
Yet the 14th earl could hardly have made his final return as plain Lord Home of the Hirsel, a humble life peer, without reflecting that after the constitutional disturbance which had enabled him to shed his earldom, and become prime minister, the House of Lords could never be the same again.
Just as we engage in a world where information and commerce flows without the need of a central authority, Bitcoin allows value to be transacted directly, peer to peer, without an intermediary.
Shakespeare enters the argument as the supreme example of a poet who discovers, through sensitivity to the ambiguities of language, how to peer without flinching into the Heideggerian abyss.
