Did she control the Daily Telegraph? 22nd 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... Articles
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
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
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
How the Conservatives Nearly Lost Their Name in 1912 24th March 2025 On 9 May 1912, large numbers of Conservatives descended on the Queen’s Hall in London, best-known at that time as the home of Sir Henry Wood’s Promenade... Articles
Anthony Eden's blissful second marriage 10th March 2025 After a colourful early life, Clarissa Eden became the beloved wife of one of our most tragic prime ministers, looking after him devotedly during his long years... Articles
Some great historians and the Conservative Party 24th February 2025 The wide influence ( and the eccentricities) of a long line of historians at Christ Church, Oxford are recalled in a learned and entertaining book which... Articles