Some interesting points here.

While the house of lords has it's obvious drawbacks, which have been repeated ad nauseam by me, let alone anyone else, it does possess a certain maturity and wisdom, ansd sometimes even demonstrates this, where the commons is a bit more - well - common!

You know?

The yin yang of parliament permits raucous debate in the commons as it is offset by dry rustly debate in the lords. The two political cultures are different.

How can the lords be reformed so that tradition isn't lost?

Perhaps if the lords was elected by PR, then it would be less adversarial by nature, being more likely to seek consensus (the mature approach).

Thus the balance between the sensible lords and the dramatic commons could be continued but in a more representative way.

The fear of the polarised party political atmosphere of the commons trespassing into the lords would no longer be such an issue.