Fact of the day

Amaze your friends and colleagues with this bit of trivia.

Lord Inglewood (Con): We have been in the European Union for a longer period than that between the death of Queen Anne and the battle of Culloden.

Trisbon

Yesterday’s sitting began at midday and by 10pm people were flagging a bit. Lord Bowness demonstrated this nicely when he inadvertently referred to the treaty of Lisbon as “the Trisbon”. We all heartily approved of this coinage; there’s going to be a lot of talk about this treaty of the next few weeks, and calling it “the Trisbon” would probably save an awful lot of trees.