One Nation Conservatism - Created by Baldwin, boosted by the ghost of Disraeli 22nd December 2019 One Nation Conservatism has never been more fashionable, thanks to Boris Johnson. Alistair Lexden discusses the phenomenon in this article, which was published... Articles
Keeping the working classes out 21st December 2019 It is widely assumed that democracy in Britain stemmed from the Reform Bill of 1832. Alistair Lexden takes a different view, as he made clear in a letter... Articles
Why the election campaign lasted so long 13th December 2019 Writing in The Spectator on 7 December, Charles Moore noted that the February 1974 election campaign was over in three weeks, but ‘now six weeks is the law of... Articles
Privy Councillors to the rescue? 6th December 2019 Dissatisfaction wiith all the party leaders at this election led a Times reader to suggest that the Privy Council should be given a bigger role. In a letter... Articles
Neville Chamberlain - a man whose reputation has languished for too long 29th November 2019 On 28 November, Alistair Lexden contributed to a run of letters in The Daily Telegraph putting the case for Neville Chamberlain’s handling of the Munich crisis... Articles
Comfort for Prince Andrew 25th November 2019 Alistair Lexden recounted what happened to an earlier Duke of York in a letter published in The Times on November 25. Sir, The current Duke of York is not the... Articles
Lloyd George and the Versailles Treaty 100 years on 21st November 2019 In February, Alistair Lexden addressed the annual conference of the Lloyd George Society on the collapse of his coalition government in 1922. The text can be... Articles
Costing Labour's Manifesto 11th November 2019 The main front-page article in the Financial Times on November 6 was devoted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s fury over the Treasury’s refusal to cost... Articles
Bercow, Buckingham and the Lords 10th November 2019 The convention that the major parties do not put up candidates against a Commons Speaker seeking re-election is widely believed to be of long-standing; in fact... Articles
