How Queen Victoria hounded her Prime Ministers Wednesday, 17 April, 2024 She gave them no peace. A marvellous new book gives the details of her tempestuous relations with them. Alistair Lexden reviewed it in Parliament’s magazine The House on 15 April. Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers: A Personal History By Anne Somerset Published by William Collins Books Queen Victoria began her long reign as an ardent Whig and ended it a diehard Tory. Her Hanoverian... Articles
Labour's threat to Special Educational Needs 15th April 2024 Labour’s plan to slap VAT on independent school fees would hurt (indeed destroy) many schools and harm many pupils—in an attempt to raise money for extra public... Recent NewsSpeeches
A Conservative statesman and his portrait painter 5th April 2024 In March, a superb portrait of Arthur Balfour by the famous portrait painter, Philip de Laszlo, in Trinity College, Cambridge was seriously damaged by vandals... Recent NewsSpeeches
The wrong 1910 election 4th April 2024 1910 was a year of two general elections, the first in January and the second in December. At both elections the Liberal Party was led by Herbert Asquith, who... ArticlesRecent News
Women at the Carlton Club 26th March 2024 In mid-March the Garrick Club came under intense fire for excluding women from membership. Questions were asked about other well-known London clubs. Some have... Articles
Lexden on the 1923 General Election 26th March 2024 December last year brought the centenary of a General Election which had a double significance: it put an end to Stanley Baldwin’s short-lived first Government... ArticlesRecent News
Churchill's sensational by-election a hundred years ago 25th March 2024 In March 1924, the first Labour Government was in office. Winston Churchill, then a Liberal, had been defeated at the last two general elections. He was... Articles
Our duty to LGBT service veterans 22nd March 2024 Between 1967 and 2000 - when homosexuality was no longer a criminal offence in civilian life - some 20,000 gay people were thrown out of the Armed Forces... Recent NewsSpeeches
Balfour and Palestine 12th March 2024 The Tory Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour, is remembered above all for the famous Declaration he made as Foreign Secretary in 1917 supporting the creation of a... Articles
Ted Heath: another round with the Home Office 12th March 2024 On 11 March, Alistair Lexden continued his long campaign to get the Home Office to put an end to the injustice that has been done to the reputation of Ted Heath... Speeches