» Ask the Maester: The Origin of the Nights King, the Wights, and Dragonglass

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• Rwanda bill clears parliament after peers abandon final battle over safety amendment – as it happened
• Relationship with the government
• Ask the Maester: The Origin of the Night’s King, the Wights, and Dragonglass
• The Emmys After-Party: Viola Davis Makes History and Jon Hamm Finally Wins September 21, 2015
• Government leaders and ministers in the Lords

Traditionally the House of Lords did not elect its own speaker, unlike the House of Commons; rather, the ex officio presiding officer was the Lord Chancellor. With the passage of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, the post of Lord Speaker was created, a position to which a peer is elected by the House and subsequently appointed by the Crown. The first Lord Speaker, elected on 4 May 2006, was Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman, a former Labour peer. He was succeeded as Lord Speaker by John McFall, Lord McFall of Alcluith, who is the incumbent Lord Speaker. The number of Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (excluding those who were no longer able to hear cases because of age restrictions) was limited to twelve, but could be changed by statutory instrument.

Rwanda bill clears parliament after peers abandon final battle over safety amendment – as it happened

Typically, these are sessional committees, meaning that their members are appointed by the House at the beginning of each session, and continue to serve until the next parliamentary session begins. In practice, these are often permanent committees, which are re-established during every session. These committees are typically empowered to make reports to the House "from time to time", that is, whenever they wish.

Relationship with the government

Most legislation, with the exception of money bills, may be introduced in either the House of Lords or House of Commons. This Act made provision to preferentially admit female bishops of the Church of England to the Lords Spiritual over male ones in the 10 years following its commencement (2015 to 2025). This came as a consequence of the Church of England deciding in 2014 to begin to ordain women as bishops. The power of Parliament grew slowly, fluctuating as the strength of the monarchy grew or declined.

Ask the Maester: The Origin of the Night’s King, the Wights, and Dragonglass

A mere 182 peers are independents who do not accept the discipline of a “whip” from one or other of the Commons parties. It is no wonder the chamber has resisted all suggestions of reform over the course of the 21st century. Lords Temporal include life peers, excepted hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 and remaining law life peers.

A further 20% would be appointed, and reserve space would be included for some Church of England archbishops and bishops. Under the proposals, members would also serve single non-renewable terms of 15 years. Former MPs would be allowed to stand for election to the Upper House, but members of the Upper House would not be immediately allowed to become MPs. For book readers, one of the thrills of watching Game of Thrones has been the vicarious pleasure of watching the premium-cable masses ride our beloved Martin World Roller Coaster of blood and sadness. That’s evident from the numerous YouTube videos of unwitting Song of Ice and Fire virgins losing their collective shit as the ambitions of King Robb and House Stark disappeared in a cloud of arterial spray. As the show moves implacably past the novels, it will be interesting to see how the hard-core book readers — some of whom may be troubled by potential spoilers or frustrated with changes made to the story — react now that they’re riding blind just like everyone else.

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Ministers in the House of Lords: Role and accountability to Parliament - House of Lords Library

Ministers in the House of Lords: Role and accountability to Parliament.

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As it expanded to include more advisors, the Witan evolved into the magnum concilium or Great Council. Most Lords are entitled to a £342 daily allowance for each sitting day attended - although they can choose not to claim. While many peers have worked in politics - including some former MPs - others are experts in areas such as science or the arts.

The chamber's membership again expanded in the following decades, increasing to above eight hundred active members in 2014 and prompting further reforms in the House of Lords Reform Act that year. The House of Lords remained more powerful than the House of Commons, but the Lower House continued to grow in influence, reaching a zenith in relation to the House of Lords during the middle 17th century. Conflicts between the King and the Parliament (for the most part, the House of Commons) ultimately led to the English Civil War during the 1640s. In 1649, after the defeat and execution of King Charles I, the Commonwealth of England was declared, but the nation was effectively under the overall control of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Unlike the politically neutral Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lord Chancellor and Deputy Speakers originally remained members of their respective parties, and were permitted to participate in debate; however, this is no longer true of the new role of Lord Speaker. Traditionally there was no mechanism by which members could resign or be removed from the House of Lords (compare the situation as regards resignation from the House of Commons). The Peerage Act 1963 permitted a person to disclaim their newly inherited peerage (within certain time limits); this meant that such a person could effectively renounce their membership of the Lords. This might be done in order to remain or become qualified to sit in the House of Commons, as in the case of Tony Benn (formerly the second Viscount Stansgate), who had campaigned for such a change. When the House of Commons passed a Reform Bill to correct some of these anomalies in 1831, the House of Lords rejected the proposal.

The Labour Party included in its 1997 general election manifesto a commitment to remove the hereditary peerage from the House of Lords.[44] Their subsequent election victory in 1997 under Tony Blair led to the denouement of the traditional House of Lords. The Labour government introduced legislation to expel all hereditary peers from the Upper House as a first step in Lords reform. As a part of a compromise, however, it agreed to permit 92 hereditary peers to remain until the reforms were complete. Thus, all but 92 hereditary peers were expelled under the House of Lords Act 1999 (see below for its provisions), making the House of Lords predominantly an appointed house. The right of a so-called second chamber to obstruct the work of the Commons must be rooted in some degree of democratic legitimacy. The basis of its composition should be one of election or selection on known criteria.

They have the power to raise the dead, their bodies are made of some kind of magical ice that is seemingly impervious to human weapons save those made of dragonglass or Valyrian steel, and they have some kind of human-like hierarchical structure. They are not actually undead, but exist as some kind of strange and inhuman form of other-life. With a vegetable garden (see above), you’ll get some food, but you’ll need to supplement it with a hunting camp (no construction cost) and a forager hut (1 timber). If you make the plot deeper (longer along the side leading back from the road), you’ll add an extension slot — effectively a backyard. Only vegetable gardens and (after you spend a development point on it) orchards are affected by the size of the extension — bigger yards equals more space for a garden. The various workshops and even livestock like chickens and goats don’t seem to be affected by the size.

Once the division concludes, the Tellers provide the results thereof to the presiding officer, who then announces them to the House. The Gentleman or Lady Usher of the Black Rod is also an officer of the House; they take their title from the symbol of their office, a black rod. Black Rod (as the Gentleman/Lady Usher is normally known) is responsible for ceremonial arrangements, is in charge of the House's doorkeepers, and may (upon the order of the House) take action to end disorder or disturbance in the Chamber.

Also, we know that the tunnels under the castle of Dragonstone on the island of the same name (which is still held by Stannis Baratheon) are rich with multicolored, boulder-size deposits of dragonglass. The Valyrians called dragonglass “frozen fire” and were known to use it to create mysterious black candles. I would assume that the ruins of Valyria, formerly the land of numerous magical volcanoes, would contain plenty of dragonglass for anyone brave enough to go get it. Let’s assume that Game of Thrones’s Night’s King is the same person who is referenced in the books (which seems a solid bet at this point). The origins of the Night’s King are shrouded in mystery and shame and stretch back 8,000 years to the fabled Age of Heroes, not long after the Wall was raised by Bran “the Builder” Stark. Or he could’ve been a Skagosi or a Norrey or maybe a member of some forgotten house.

Until 1999 its membership included clergy, hereditary peers, life peers (peers appointed by the prime minister since 1958), and the judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Britain’s final court of appeal). Though it predates the House of Commons and dominated it for centuries, its power has gradually diminished. Its power to affect revenue bills was constrained by the Parliament Act of 1911, and in 1949 its power to delay by more than a year the enactment of any bill passed by the Commons was revoked. In 1999 the hereditary peers lost their right to sit in the House of Lords, though an interim reform retains their voice in a more limited fashion.

They’re where your town’s families build houses, they generate income for your treasury, and they’re also how you’ll build a number of important workshops in backyard extensions. The legislation is designed to allow the government to put some asylum seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda, where they would have their claims processed by the authorities in that Central African country. If they were then granted refugee status, they would be resettled in Rwanda, not Britain. Britain’s Parliament passed contentious legislation to allow the deportation of asylum seekers to the African country, a political victory for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

It’s the threat, both fictional and metafictional, that this meticulously crafted world of lords and kings, which we have all devoted so much time to following, is really just a house of cards standing in the path of an avalanche. That everything, despite Martin’s protestations against charges of nihilism, means nothing. Once you’ve placed all four points of flexible plot, you’ll get a popup with a couple controls — an arrow to rotate the plot (to change the street-facing side), a hammer to (start to) build the plot, and then plus and minus buttons. Those last two set how many burgage plots your flexible plot gets divided into. Fewer plots means the burgage plots are wider (they take up more road), but it might also add enough room to expand living space — basically add a second, smaller house for a second family — indicated by a house icon with a plus sign on it.