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What is the House of Lords and why does it still exist?

The UK prides itself on democracy — yet one of its most powerful institutions isn’t elected at all. The House of Lords is made up of life appointees, hereditary peers, and senior bishops, many serving ...
IGN

"We asked our community just how far we should push the gore."

Lords of the Fallen II publisher CI Games has shown gameplay footage of its Soulslike sequel during The Game Awards 2025, featuring new character Omeuras and enemy limbs flying everywhere. Ahead of ...
Push Square

Action RPG Lords of the Fallen 2 Absolved of Sin with Brutal PS5 Gameplay Trailer

CI Games has provided us with a fresh look at its upcoming action RPG sequel, Lords of the Fallen 2. Check out the new gameplay trailer below: It marks the second year in a row that It's a Sin by Pet ...
The Financial Times

UK House of Lords accused of holding up passage of assisted dying bill

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Labour MP who introduced the UK assisted dying bill has criticised the “very slow” progress of the ...
BBC

What's happening with the assisted dying bill?

It was more than a year ago that MPs first gave their backing to proposed legislation which would introduce assisted dying in England and Wales, in an historic House of Commons vote. In its current ...
GamesRadar+

Lords of the Fallen 2 looks exactly like the bigger, bloodier Soulslike that fans of the series have come to expect

The upcoming sequel to Lords of the Fallen (no, not that one) just had its gameplay premiere at The Game Awards. If you're a fan of the series' heavier take on Soulslike gameplay, oodles of blood, and ...
Game Rant

Lords of the Fallen 2 Shows Off Its First-Ever Gameplay

Matthew is a writer for Game Rant. His first console was the NES, but he made most of his childhood memories with the SNES. Matthew spent much of his early life begging to go to Blockbuster to browse ...
GameInformer

Lords of the Fallen 2 Looks Gruesome In First Gameplay Trailer

Polish developer CI Games revealed the first footage of Lords of the Fallen 2 gameplay during The Game Awards earlier this evening. The trailer shows off three bosses, confirmed via an official press ...
The Independent

Why is Labour filling the House of Lords with its own peers?

There must be some irony, if not perhaps a hint of spite, in the fact that the House of Lords is causing the government some legislative difficulty just as the very last of the hereditary peers are ...
Politico Europe

5 times Labour denounced the House of Lords … before packing it with pals

LONDON — When a job for life beckons, principles have a way of disappearing. Keir Starmer has given 25 close allies an early Christmas present, appointing them to Britain’s unelected House of Lords.
Liverpool Echo

This House of Lords appointment is an insult to Liverpool and a sign of a system that's broken

For many, the repeated image of the friends, allies and favoured former colleagues of the nation's leaders being routinely stuffed into the upper chamber of parliament is an unsavoury one at the best ...
Daily Mail

Labour ministers struggle to defend Keir Starmer's U-turn on the House of Lords as he stuffs it with even more peers - despite once calling an unelected chamber 'indefensible'

In his latest batch of appointments to the Lords, Sir Keir announced a fresh list of 25 Labour peerages as he gave jobs for life to cronies and ex-advisers. There were also five nominations for ...