Did she control the Daily Telegraph? Thursday, 22 May, 2025 In the years up until the fall of Ted Heath, it was widely believed that what appeared in The Daily Telegraph was decided by the scheming wife of the editor-in-chief, Michael Berry, later Lord Hartwell. A new biography suggests that she was far from being all-powerful. Alistair Lexden reviewed the book in Parliament’s magazine, The House, on 19 May. Lady Pamela Berry: Passion, Politics and Power... Articles
Pets' corner 12th May 2025 Alistair Lexden speaks in the Lords from time to time about issues relating to animal welfare. On 6 and 12 May he supported amendments, moved by Lord Black of... Speeches
What happened in Parliament on VE Day, 80 years ago? 6th May 2025 Alistair Lexden described the scene in the Commons sitting in the Lords chamber in the following article published in Parliament’s magazine The House on 6 May... Articles
Making amends for the injustice suffered by LGBT veterans 1st May 2025 Between 1967 and 2000—a period when homosexual conduct was no longer a crime in civilian life—some 20,000 LGBT people were thrown out of the armed forces... Recent NewsSpeeches
Addressing prize-winning students 29th April 2025 On 29 April, Alistair Lexden presented prizes to 33 students from independent sixth-form colleges belonging to the Council for Independent Education (CIFE), of... Recent News
What should be done about the remaining hereditary peers in the Lords? 26th April 2025 The Government’s Bill to remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers, fulfilling a commitment in Labour’s election manifesto, has come under sustained atack from... Articles
The gay ex-MP who vanished 105 years ago 22nd April 2025 No one knows why or how Victor Grayson, briefly an extreme left-wing MP, disappeared without trace in 1920. The unsolved mystery has now been turned into a... Articles
"You will be held to account," Lord Lexden tells Labour 2nd April 2025 After inflicting two heavy defeats on the Government, on 1 April the House of Lords reluctantly gave way to the large Labour majority in the Commons, and ended... Speeches
Supermac's triumph 31st March 2025 In a letter published in the April edition of The Critic magazine, Alistair Lexden corrected an article in the previous month’s edition which had misdated an... Articles
"The bishop and the rats": Tories and Lords reform in 1910-11 24th March 2025 The following article, written against the background of the latest dispute over the composition of the Lords, was published in Parliament’s magazine The House... Articles
