Baroness Ashton s voice at the recent European Council was characteristically muted.

That will not happen if Baroness Ashton remains a low profile operator.

The most influential Muslim woman in British politics, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (also the Conservative Party chairperson), joined other Muslims in the House of Lords, such as Lord Ahmed, the most senior Labour peer, and Baroness Kishwer Falkner, a Liberal Democrat.

Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, (3 August 1920 27 November 2014), known as P. D. James, was an English crime writer.

The EU s new High Representative for external affairs, Baroness Catherine Ashton, tried to justify her failure to go to Haiti in the immediate aftermath of its terrible earthquake by saying, I am neither a nurse nor a fire person.

This was a triumph for the EU s foreign policy chief, High Representative Baroness Catherine Ashton, who secured the backing of EU member states (even from the five that do not recognize Kosovo s independence), the United States, and both Serbia and Kosovo.

But the nominees for those offices betrayed the intentions of all three EU powers honorable and competent though President Herman Van Rompuy and Baroness Catherine Ashton may be, they are perfectly unknown and thus pose no threat to the powers that be in Berlin, Paris, and London.