Whatever happened to....

Life used to be so simple - the Lord Chancellor was Speaker of the House of Lords, the most senior judge, and a member of the Cabinet. Not an easy post to fill, but a crucial one in respect of the checks and balances in our unwritten constitution between the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary. Some coped with it better than others - for my money, the best Lord Chancellor of recent times was Lord Mackay back in the 90's. But now it's all changed and the post exists today pretty well in name only, and the most recent nonsense is that the current Lord Chancellor is Jack Straw, who isn't even a lord! Life used to be so simple......