The Honourable Woman is a new eight-part political thriller written, directed and produced by BAFTA-winning writer Hugo Blick, and marks Gyllenhaal’s first move into TV.

Consider last month, when some honourable lordships were caught using the influence of their office to try and procure VVIP tickets to PSL. The reason you didn’t see many lawyers commenting on ...

Nowadays there is no other obvious benefit to being a member, but the excision of the "right honourable" prefix has never been trauma-free, and is usually accompanied by scandal, deceit or ignominy.