When Sir Mark Rowley was appointed Commissioner of the Met last year, he vowed to get rid of the criminals and the incompetent officers within the ranks who have blackened the name of the most famous police force in the world.
Labour want to slap VAT on independent school fees. This would be a tax on education and learning. There is no precedent for such a thing in British history.
These were the two subjects which Alistair Lexden addressed in his speech in the Lords on 9 November during the debate which followed the King’s Speech at the opening of the new Session of Parliament.
In a letter published in The Daily Telegraph on 7 November, Alistair Lexden questioned whether Churchill would have approved of the strident way in which some ministers today are publicly demanding changes to the European Convention on Human Rights.
Alistair Lexden has a long connection with the independent schools. He is currently President of the Independent Schools Association (ISA), which has some 650 members, all of them highly successful schools, many of them small in size.
There is an overwhelming - some say unanswerable - case for an independent review of a number of allegations of child sex abuse made against Ted Heath after his death which were left unresolved at the end of a deeply flawed police investigation, known as Operation Conifer, in 2017.
On 19 October, Labour won its biggest by-election victory over the Conservatives since the Second World war in Tamworth, a seat that has a special significance in Tory history. Alistair Lexden commented as follows:
There has been much speculation about this Liberal prime minister, who held the highest political office briefly in 1894-5. Suspicions intensified after a tragic death in 1894, to which Alistair Lexden referred in a letter published in The Daily Telegraph on October 10.
