True

So much for parliamentary democracy then! It relies hugely on a shared understanding of what’s appropriate.

The question then is whether it is appropriate for a small number of peers to table so many amendments that the Lords is unable to take a decision on a proposal backed in a free vote by the elected Commons - potentially contrary to the will of both chambers.

Exactly this!

(You’re right that the process is broken, however. The Westminster PMB system is completely broken as we see when we compare it to Holyrood.)

There is limited time for it and a small group of peers are deliberately (I believe) tabling irrelevant amendments and talking at length to stop the bill getting effective scrutiny and development and get on its way. This is surely obstruction?

And these words - about the meaning of a name and which in one form or another have been an important part of the developing tradition of humanist baby naming over the decades since the 1880s - never fail to give me a little shiver:

Go, and be gay;
You are born into the dazzling light of day.
Go, and be wise;
You are born upon an earth which needs new eyes.
Go, and be strong;
You are born into a world where love rights wrong.
Go, and be brave;
Possess your soul; that you alone can save.

Do! You won’t regret it.

Doesn’t it