Andover woman ordered to attend

IoS letters, emails and online postings (6 September 2015)

While there is much about the House of Lords that can be mocked, John Rentoul was wrong to say the House “serves no good purpose except as a more thoughtful version of Question Time” (“Peerages: birthright to baubles is not progress”, 30 August).

Letters: We need fewer MPs who are paid a better salary but given no expenses

SIR – The lifetime of a Parliament has now changed, and so should the way we pay our MPs. Cut their numbers down to 550, award a really good pay rise – say to £100,000 – with increases at the beginning of each new Parliament. Then abolish all expense