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In this essay, which was noted in The Times on May 19, Alistair Lexden reflects on how Lord Salisbury (1830-1903), the last prime minister to sit in the House...

Have fees at independent schools increased so much in recent years that middle-class families can no longer afford them? The claim is often made. Alistair...

The row over who paid for the redecoration of the Downing Street flat which Boris Johnson shares with Carrie Symonds led Alistair Lexden to explain, in a letter...

Benjamin Disraeli, first and last Earl of Beaconsfield, died on this day 140 years ago at the age of seventy-six from bronchitis contracted three weeks earlier...

An article in The Times on April 12 deplored Downing Street’s failure to give adequate consideration to the interests of the devolved parliaments and...

The following letter was published in The Daily Telegraph on April 10, the day after the Duke of Edinburgh’s death. SIR – Parliament did not always treat the...

A very small proportion of those who receive honours from the Queen subsequently bring disgrace upon themselves, and forfeit the distinctions that have been...

One of the many sad and sorry features of Justin Welby’s time as Archbishop of Canterbury has been his failure to admit that he was wrong in condemning the...

On 25 February 1868, Mary Anne Disraeli, whose adoration of her husband knew no bounds, wrote excitedly to her friend, Lady Charlotte de Rothschild: ‘By the...