One Nation - Disraeli never said it 7th December 2018 For years Alistair Lexden, the Conservative Party’s official historian, has been correcting the mistake that is constantly being made in attributing the famous... Articles
Hero in war, hopeless in politics 5th December 2018 A report in The Daily Telegraph on November 29 about a famous First World War painting prompted the following letter from Alistair Lexden, which was published... Articles
School bullies 23rd November 2018 This was the headline over a leading article in The Times on November 17, stemming from a report in the paper that “local councils have been blocking special... Articles
Publish those letters 19th November 2018 In a letter published in The Times on November 19, Alistair Lexden called for an end to the secrecy surrounding the process by which a vote of no confidence can... Articles
An unhappy admiral 17th November 2018 In a letter to The Daily Telegraph at the beginning of November, Alistair Lexden revealed a hitherto little-known account of how the Armistice at the end of the... Articles
Baldwin's election 13th November 2018 It was under this headline that a letter from Alistair Lexden was published in the TLS: The Times Literary Supplement on November 9. Sir, Jonathan Benthall (In... Articles
The new political world created in 1918 12th November 2018 Alistair Lexden was asked to write an article about the political aftermath of the First World War for Parliament’s House Magazine. The text of his article... Articles
How the 1918 Armistice came to be announced at the eleventh hour 3rd November 2018 A virtually unknown account of how the decision to announce the Armistice at 11am came to be made was published by Alistair Lexden in the main letter to The... Articles
A better class of insult 26th October 2018 In his Times column on October 24, Matthew Parris praised Disraeli’s repertoire of insults under the headline: “Our verbally abusive MPs have nothing on... Articles