In April, Alistair Lexden prepared an address on the centenary of Lloyd George’s Government of Ireland Act 1920 for a dinner at the Reform Club, which could not...

Both in August 1945 and ever since, some people have said that atom bombs should never have been used. Winston Churchill himself answered the critics during a...

Writing as a former adviser to Airey Neave and friend of Ian Gow, Alistair Lexden issued the following statement on August 6. “Last week’s honours list included...

For some years, there has been concern — voiced frequently in the media — about the size of the House of Lords. In 2016, there were 824 members, significantly...

On 30 July, after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two women, the judge told Charlie Elphicke, the former MP for Dover, that he faced “the very real...

Britain’s pride in its expanding Empire in the nineteenth century led unsurprisingly to calls for the erection of grand and imposing memorials to it in the...

The Labour Party swept to power at the 1945 general election. Huge changes followed, particularly in the further development of the welfare state which had been...

In an oral question in the Lords on 22 July, Alistair Lexden asked: “since social distancing could have been arranged so easily at the outset, was it really...

Shortly before his death in 1960, Sir Lewis Namier was hailed at Oxford University as “the creator of the science of modern history who has never forgotten to...