Articulation par excelence

I am a fortunate person, fortunate in the opportunity I have to watch and listen to the debates in the House of Lords. 
Get a life I hear you say but for some the pleasure comes with simply observing people at the top of their game. It could be a game of football or a game of rugby. It could a wildlife program or how to bake a cake but it catches your interest and often provides a glimpse of something outside your everyday life. Current affairs and politics in general, although a minefield of misrepresentation is like a parallel universe, or black matter, it's there and effects us all.

The Lords are a much maligned body. The people who used to sit on the red benches 30 years ago were largely members of the aristocracy and not representative of the majority who are represented in The House of Commons.

Given that today the House of Lords has become more egalitarian with the introduction over the years of people, not from the Upper Class but more representative of ordinary people, people who had achieved some notice in their lives were included and brought a wealth of 'hands on' experience.
The House of Lords act as a refining chamber to the Commons sifting through the bills that pass through the Commons to make them not only more constitutionally water-tight but if possible less party political motivated and more suited to the nation as a whole.
The Lords are there to debate and ask questions.
In their debating role one observes some of the best minds in our society.  Drawn from the high positions in both the professions and industry, they have accumulated an ocean of forensic experience. Be it a Law Lord or a person who has spent a lifetime in Finance or perhaps running one of the great Industrial Organisations, these men and women have 'hands on' experience often sadly missing when sought amongst the professional politician who knows little else than the internecine warfare practiced in the House of Commons.
The debates by their 'Lordships' (I would dissolve the term Lordship because of its feudal links) are a delight to listen to in their use of language to define a problem and their high respect for other opinion. No baying for blood as in the Commons they appeal to me by their articulation of a complex political process and then one is able to listen to the equally captivating alternate point of view !!