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Alistair Lexden contributed a few comments to supplement the obituary of the Dowager Lady Farnham, published in The Times on January 4. Lady Farnham served the...

The announcement of Tony Blair’s appointment by the Queen as a Knight of the Garter in the New Year’s honours list was praised by some, but strongly criticised...

It is customary to regard Clement Attlee as one of the most important prime ministers in British history. Letters published in The Times on December 27 noted...

Following his Spectator letter (see below) on strains within the Liberal Party at Christmas 1885, Alistair Lexden wrote to The Daily Telegraph about Christmas...

The following letter was published under the heading 'Gladstone tidings' in the Christmas issue of The Spectator, dated 18 December. Sir: Boris Johnson's...

On December 14, 100 Conservative MPs voted against Boris Johnson’s latest measures to combat Coronavirus. The rebels included all the officers of the backbench...

The second Baron Denham, known universally as Bertie, served in the governments of five Conservative Prime Ministers over a period of thirty years, but it was...

When Bishop George Bell was wrongly condemned by the Church of England as a child abuser in 2015, his name was removed from a number of buildings in his...

Picton was the highest-ranking officer to be killed at Waterloo. For over a century a distinguished portrait of him has hung in the National Museum of Wales. At...