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
The first Whigs and Tories 19th January 2024 The attached article was published in Parliament’s magazine The House , to which Alistair Lexden contributes regularly, on 15 January. It is an abridged – and... Articles
Ted Heath: will a great wrong ever be righted? 18th January 2024 For over five years Alistair Lexden has been campaigning alongside others to get an independent inquiry into a deeply flawed police investigation of child... Speeches
A Conservative history essay: how the Tory Party was born some 340 years ago 22nd December 2023 The modern histories of the Conservative Party do not provide a full account of how it first came into being as the Tory Party in the early 1680s. This essay... Articles
Edward VIII speaks out 18th December 2023 Few people have come under more sustained attack . Some have accused him of being a Nazi collaborator. The King’s side of the story, drawing on hitherto... Articles
Should the Elgin Marbles be loaned to Greece? 15th December 2023 George Osborne, Chairman of the British Museum Trustees, has been in discussion with the Greek Government for some time about a loan. Alistair Lexden brought... Speeches
Who created the NHS? 1st December 2023 The Labour Party want us to believe that they deserve all the credit, constantly boasting that Nye Bevan was the sole architect of the NHS. But Labour only... Recent NewsSpeeches
Ancient robes but no coronet 1st December 2023 Writing in The Spectator about the State Opening of Parliament on 7 November, Charles Moore, now a colleague in the Lords, mentioned that he was seated near... Articles
Crime and corruption in the Met: Home Office dither and delay 28th November 2023 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... Recent NewsSpeeches
We need an independent review of Ted Heath allegations 21st November 2023 Ted Heath has been betrayed by the Home Office and the government – we need a new independent review of the allegations against him. Read Lord Lexden's most... Articles