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Brilliant as they are at avoiding anything that smacks of principle, the Blairites now have a second chamber with almost a hundred "chosen" hereditary peers, and the remainder a bunch of party appointees.
Mutations in this gene account for 60% of hereditary ovarian cancers [ 1 ] . Loss of heterozygosity in this gene occurs in 30-70% of sporadic ovarian carcinomas [ 2 ] . Species homology studies have shown that while the entire 22 exon gene is poorly conserved, the terminal ends maintain over an 80% homology between rat, human and mouse [ 3 ] . BRCA1 has long been known to function in DNA repair.
As was widely publicized, the Labor government earlier this month evicted 666 very Monty Python-ish hereditary peers ("Binkies") from the upper chamber, temporarily leaving 92 and otherwise putting the House of Lords in the hands of about 500 politically appointed life peers ("day boys"), whose title and membership dies with them.
Before long he had exiled the king, replaced him with the youthful crown prince, and arranged to have himself and his family made hereditary prime ministers.
Of course, the Independent is not in favour of the hereditary principle, but if it happens to coincide with the popular will, then who can argue with it?"