UFOs in the House of Lords, 1979 (Uncovered Editions) Book

"The cure for admiring the House of Lords," Walter Bagehot observed, "was to go and look at it." The truth of this dictum is certainly upheld by this Stationery Office edition of their Lordships' 1979 debate on the desirability of holding an inquiry into the occurrence of UFOs. Seldom has so much eloquence been displayed on such a bizarre topic. By letting the peers pontificate verbatim, tying themselves in astronomical knots, this proves to be one of the best of this imaginative series of reproductions of official government documents. Ancient Egypt, Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, Star Trek and the Loch Ness monster are all discussed in this zany debate, proving that there are more laughs a minute in the Houses of Parliament than in any Ben Elton script. Let there be more such editions of this sort in this series, to lighten the rather heavy fare of military disasters. --Miles TaylorRead More