“You know you are in exalted company when Lord Charles fixes his slightly glazed, monocled eye on you and calls you a “silly ass” in his calculating colonial tones”, says Graham Smith following his interview with Ray Alan.

“By the law of averages the irascible old fool should have drunk enough to float him down the river in an ermine lined box to obscurity, but no, he’s still fighting for the British Empire.”

Read Graham’s full article, One Lord Who Will Never be abolished!