Pen Portraits of our monarchs Monday, 29 April, 2024 A brilliant collection of them has been republished in an updated edition . Alistair Lexden reviewed it in Parliament’s magazine The House on 29 April. Gimson’s Kings & Queens: Brief Lives of the Monarchs since 1066 By Andrew Gimson Published by Square Peg Andrew Gimson, who is well-known to readers of The House, writes with a most attractive astringency. This quality is an immense asset in... Articles
Acquisition and destruction at Chartwell 9th June 2017 A successful fund-raising campaign by the National Trust has enabled it to acquire a number of Churchill’s former possessions which will be put on display at... Articles
Unusual manifesto accolade 2nd June 2017 An article in The Spectator of 27 May was complimentary about some of the language used in the Conservative manifesto. Alistair Lexden responded in a letter... Articles
The Primrose League - a priceless Tory asset before 1914 1st June 2017 Alistair Lexden was recently commissioned to write a thousand word article on the Primrose League for a new independent website that will be launched in due... Articles
Catching the Editor's eye 24th May 2017 A point made in Alistair Lexden’s piece about the Conservative election manifesto (see below) appeared in TMS, The Times diary column, on May 24 under the... Articles
The 2017 Conservative Manifesto - the new and the old 19th May 2017 The general election manifesto, published on 18 May, breaks with Tory tradition in at least two major respects. First, one of its central pledges is to create a... Articles
A tragic Tory leader and his diaries 19th May 2017 Few people today have even heard of Sir Stafford Northcote. He was a prominent late nineteenth century politician whose career ended in failure after nine years... Articles
The most personalised Tory campaign 16th May 2017 At this election the name and image of the Tory party leader are everywhere-- on battlebuses, campaign literature, advertisements and so on. The Conservative... Articles
Misrepresenting Thatcher 16th May 2017 A new statue of Margaret Thatcher has been completed; it is due to be erected in Parliament Square. Alistair Lexden does not think much of it, as he made clear... Articles
Sutherland's portrait of Churchill 13th May 2017 In June 2016 (see previous article), Alistair Lexden published an article about Graham Sutherland’s acclaimed, but deeply controversial portrait of Winston... Recent News