In the Lords they're starting at 11am, three and a half hours early, to accommodate the massive speakerslist for the Second Reading of the already much amended Health and Social Care Bill - 92 peers are currently down to speak, in what promises to be an epic Lords sequel to its stormy passage through the Commons.
Indeed, except for a few tv loudmouths and self-help salesmen, there's nobody on the list whose day job is to interpret real events. (We dropped a category for public speakers this year--that's why you don't see Bill Clinton--because it's such a static roster.) No matter: Click here to enjoy the names and faces as useful data points of a personality-obsessed era.