weird OP for sure And the phrase "racialism" always gets my spidey senses going. Perhaps susiq, you could explain your crieteria for who IS deserving of a "peerage"? I would argue that she not only lost her son to murderers, but she, OVER YEARS, fought the institutional racism within the met police and elsewhere to raise the issues which go beyond the bald fact of her son's murder. She was able to marshall the media, keep the public engaged and didn't give up. I doff my cap to people like her