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A full and accurate understanding of the British Empire is impeded by the unremitting hostility of many writers and commentators. As Alistair Lexden stressed in...

This was a skill that the most senior royal courtiers needed until recently. Some managed better than others, as Alistair Lexden noted in a letter published in...

The attached article was published in Parliament’s magazine The House, to which Alistair Lexden contributes regularly, on 15 January. It is an abridged – and...

The modern histories of the Conservative Party do not provide a full account of how it first came into being as the Tory Party in the early 1680s. This essay...

Few people have come under more sustained attack . Some have accused him of being a Nazi collaborator. The King’s side of the story, drawing on hitherto...

Writing in The Spectator about the State Opening of Parliament on 7 November, Charles Moore, now a colleague in the Lords, mentioned that he was seated near...

Ted Heath has been betrayed by the Home Office and the government – we need a new independent review of the allegations against him. Read Lord Lexden's most...

Labour want to slap VAT on independent school fees. This would be a tax on education and learning. There is no precedent for such a thing in British history...

In a letter published in The Daily Telegraph on 7 November, Alistair Lexden questioned whether Churchill would have approved of the strident way in which some...