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QUENTIN LETTS: As one peer took a post-nosebag snooze, I wondered why do clever people join the Lords?

QUENTIN LETTS: As one peer took a post-nosebag snooze, I wondered why do clever people join the Lords?

Recently this column reported, with a touch of asperity, from the Lords. Yesterday, I revisited the Upper House to check I had not been unkind to the old boobies.

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