Is this what the public expect in the third decade of the 21st century? As we have just seen, its recommendations can be overridden by No 10. The result is that all too often this leaves peers carrying the can for inaction. Third, we should recognise also that there is no limit on the maximum number of peers in the House. But self-evidently, with the new list of 16 appointments published on Tuesday, that has not been enough.
Sort of the 16th century.
( z0 date-entity :century 16 :mod ( z1 sort ) )
(z0 / date-entity
    :century 16
    :mod (z1 / sort))
Sort of the 16th century .
z0 :century 0
z0 :mod z1