It is not uncommon for Churchill to be accused of opposing the welfare state created after the Second World War. The charge resurfaced in The Times on May 7...

In an article in The Spectator of 9 May, Simon Heffer, a prolific journalist who also writes history books, picked out a number of political biographies...

The tumultuous VE celebrations which took place in cities, towns and villages across the nation have been recalled widely in the media to mark their 75th...

The child born to Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds on 29 April prompted this letter from Alistair Lexden which was published in The Daily Telegraph on 2 May...

“Change? Why do we need change? Aren’t things bad enough as they are?” These amusing, reactionary words appear from time to time on the lips of politicians and...

In her superb biography of Queen Victoria, published in 1964, Elizabeth Longford wrote: “It might well be claimed that Queen Victoria’s greatest gift to her...

On 22 April, Alistair Lexden was due to speak a dinner given by the Political Committee of the Reform Club in London. The text of the address that he would have...

Some people are remembered for just one thing after their death to the exclusion of everything else they achieved. Peter Viggers, an MP for thirty-six years...

An article in The Times on April 13 about the role of independent schools argued that “this crisis provides an opportunity to rethink the place of these schools...