Churchill and Bevan during the Second World War 22nd December 2020 We look back on the Second World War as a time when the country was united behind Churchill and his national government, a coalition of all parties, in the... Articles
Johnson and sovereignty 21st December 2020 In all the discussion in Parliament and the media about an EU trade deal, one small but central point has been lost to sight. Boris Johnson has said over and... Articles
Who were the first Asians to sit in Parliament? 16th December 2020 Three were elected to the House of Commons, and another became a peer, between 1892 and 1929. Their lives have been told by Lord (Mahomed) Sheikh, a... Articles
Final words on that Thatcher Statue 15th December 2020 On a number of occasions since 2017—most recently on 7 December ( see below )—Alistair Lexden has castigated a truly dreadful statue of Mrs Thatcher. In a... Articles
Times letters - claiming the record 11th December 2020 The publication of Alistair Lexden’s 300th Times letter on 7 December(see below) led a number of people in the House of Lords and elsewhere to ask whether this... Recent News
Can we trust the National Trust? 8th December 2020 An Act of Parliament, passed in 1937, defined the objectives of the National Trust in the following terms: the preservation of buildings of national interest... Speeches
Thatcher painting mystery published 7th December 2020 Earlier this year, Alistair Lexden wrote up the results of prolonged researches, undertaken with an art dealer, Daniel Hadden, into a mysterious painting of Mrs... Articles
300th letter in the Times 7th December 2020 A letter by Alistair Lexden in The Times on December 7 about a terrible statue of Mrs Thatcher was the 300th that he has had published in the paper, appearing... Recent News
Mrs Thatcher demeaned by statue 7th December 2020 A ten-foot tall bronze statue of Mrs Thatcher, said to have cost £300,000, by an award-winning sculptor, Douglas Jennings, has become the subject of heated... Articles