Jude Law is exquisite as Lord Alfred Douglas, the sultry homme fatal for whom Wilde sacrifices everything.
Which, as Lord Levy knows, is a lot less fraught than having to ask people for money.
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The changes would also stop convicted criminals such as Lord Archer from sitting in the upper house.
Trevor-Roper, ennobled as Lord Dacre by Margaret Thatcher in 1979, was ludicrously talented.
And, as Lord Prescott may recall, things that are not a big deal can help define your ministerial career.
As Lord Layard himself says, unemployment visits terrible unhappiness on those it afflicts.
As Lord Carter notes, the pressure on prison numbers is unlikely to abate.
The production will also star two-time Tony Award nominee Jayne Houdyshell as the Nurse and Tony nominee Joe Morton as Lord Capulet.
As lord chancellor, Lord Irvine is responsible for appointing QCs and judges.
Champions of comprehensives, such as Lord Hattersley, a former deputy leader of Labour, see this as reintroducing selection gradually by the back door.
He describes it as Lord of the Rings meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets The Muppets, with a little bit of Stars Wars thrown in.
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Give Mr Brown more time, beg the prime minister's dwindling bunch of supporters: new ministers will revive his fortunes, as Lord Mandelson did last year.
Half of this will come from raising the contribution rates of employees into public-sector pension schemes, as Lord Hutton, a former Labour minister, recently recommended.
So long as Lord Irvine confines his activities to presiding over the Lords or fiddling about with the courts and lawyers, he does little harm.
Lord Woolf stepped down as lord chief justice last September and will soon be spending a month sitting as an appeal court judge in Hong Kong.
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Mr Hayward rose to become head of exploration and production, a key role in any oil company, and was long identified as Lord Browne's likely successor.
Where a factory worker is displaced, they may have to relocate (i.e. be on their bike, as Lord Tebbit once said in the UK), or seek retraining.
He wrote to the then Attorney General John Morris in early 1998, just as Lord Justice Stuart-Smith's report was due to recommend no new inquiry into Hillsborough.
Or, as Lord Skidelsky argues in a book he's just written with his son, Edward, it's distracting us from what really matters, which is leading a good life.
Conservative unrest over Europe has gained fresh momentum following the recent election success of the UK Independence Party and comments by Tory grandees such as Lord Lawson suggesting EU withdrawal.
As well as Lord Triesman and Thompson, the new board will include Premier League chairman Dave Richards, Football League chairman Brian Mawhinney, Lord Coe, Paul Elliott and chief executive Andy Anson.
He also notes that his predictions were supposed to be an average for 10 years from 2004, so it was too early to draw conclusions, as Lord Howell did, in 2006.
As Lord Blake, an eminent historian of Toryism, said at the time, that kind of change in the intellectual climate comes along only once or twice every hundred years or so.
What they actually should have done is what I and near every economist (yes, including even such as Lord Stern and his report) have been saying for a decade and more.
But, since Mr Blair remains unpersuaded of the case for reform, his willingness to contemplate so distinguished a chairman as Lord Jenkins shows his commitment to fair dealing with the Lib Dems.
And it was seized from the French in 1798 by Ali Pasha, an Albanian who entertained such intrepid visitors as Lord Byron and Edward Lear and built himself a fine triangular castle nearby.
This Hobbit is every bit as grand as Lord of the Rings, and it will be interesting to see how it plays as an adaption of the book, as well as an original story.
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Over in the Lords (from 2.30pm), the first event of the day is the introduction of the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who is reincarnated back into the House as Lord Williams of Oystermouth.
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