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Robert Harris’s latest historical novel about the passionate love affair between Herbert Asquith and Venetia Stanley has attracted much praise. Alistair Lexden...

The closing stages of a general election 100 years ago were dominated by one of the most controversial letters of all time. Had it been sent by the Soviet...

The storm of criticism which Sir Keir Starmer has attracted for accepting numerous gifts - including clothes for himself and his wife - prompted the following...

By the autumn of 1924 the first Labour Government was in serious difficulties. Here Alistair Lexden describes how the problems led to an October election, which...

Ever since the dangerous left-wing movement, Black Lives Matter, started making wild allegations about various people in the past, William Gladstone has been...

Lord Liverpool won few encomiums during an extraordinarily long political career which spanned the wars against revolutionary France and the deeply troubled era...

The following letter was published in The Spectator on 27 July. The Ionic pillars referred to in it were designed by the renowned architect, Sir John Soane...

Alistair Lexden usually reviews books on political history (and occasionally writes a short one of his own). Here he discusses a new book of remarkable...

Prime minister at the age of 24, the Younger Pitt died when he was 46 in 1806 after serving in the highest political office for eighteen years, a term exceeded...