The MPs who died in the First World War 23rd March 2018 Nearly a third of MPs served in the First World War; 22 died. A new book, Led by Lions, summarises the careers of those who gave their lives. A review of this... Articles
Chamberlain and Churchill - a perfect partnership 16th March 2018 Patrick Donner, a Second World War RAF pilot and Tory MP, wrote in his memoirs: “must not the final verdict be that Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill... Articles
Attempted political theft 9th March 2018 On March 7, The Times reported that Henry Bolton, recently ousted as UKIP’s leader, has launched his own political party called One Nation. He said the new... Articles
Did Churchill drink too much? 5th March 2018 Many people have said that he did. In a recent interview, reported in The Daily Telegraph on 2 March, his 97-year-old niece, Lady Avon (widow of Anthony Eden)... Articles
Votes at 16 - and all other rights too? 19th February 2018 According to an article in the London Evening Standard on 15 February, support for lowering the voting age to 16 is growing among Conservative MPs, though the... Articles
The true heroine of the women's suffrage campaign 15th February 2018 The centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, which extended the right to vote in parliamentary elections to a limited number of women, has given... Articles
Votes at 16? 9th February 2018 In an article in The Times on February 7, Daniel Finkelstein urged the Conservative Party to support the reduction of the voting age to sixteen, a change with... Articles
Advice for the Archbishop on the Bell case 5th February 2018 The Archbishop of Canterbury has incurred much criticism for his failure to accept recommendations in the report of Lord Carlile of Berriew QC on the case of... Articles
Slashing suffragette 2nd February 2018 At the end of January,the National Portrait Gallery announced that, for the first time in twenty years, a portrait of Thomas Carlyle slashed by cleaver-wielding... Articles