A world of change can still have continuities

摘要

I have always been suspicious about people who claim to know what is sustainable. I remember Lord Falconer, never elected to any public office but now one of those members of the House of Lords telling us what to think, claiming that the upper house was not 'sustainable' if it included hereditary peers. Unless the aristocracy stopped breeding, it obviously was sustainable, having survived for many centuries. I doubt the current arrangement will last as long.