Parliamentary proceedings
Feb. 28th, 2016 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcWatching the House of Commons can be entertaining if one forgets their involvement in governance: it is rather too much showmanship. The House of Lords can be interesting to see when some of them have experience and interesting points to share but my favorite is probably the select committees wherein a panel of MPs question a few experts on some topic. It's often not very educational but it's reassuring to see at least some semblance of truth-seeking occurring among the corridors of power and these days BBC iPlayer makes them convenient to watch.
Perhaps American committee hearings for the Senate or House are similar but I don't actually remember watching those. On C-SPAN I'd be more likely to watch Book TV or somesuch (possibly even Prime Minister's Questions). Some courtroom-related stuff is televised in the US too: perhaps I was also more likely to watch parole hearings or some other aspect of the system at work.
Perhaps American committee hearings for the Senate or House are similar but I don't actually remember watching those. On C-SPAN I'd be more likely to watch Book TV or somesuch (possibly even Prime Minister's Questions). Some courtroom-related stuff is televised in the US too: perhaps I was also more likely to watch parole hearings or some other aspect of the system at work.
