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A leading article in The Times on September 16 expressed concern that the Prince of Wales might seek to bring undue influence to bear on ministers when he...

On 31 July 1963, Dr Stephen Ward, a well-known osteopath and artist, was convicted on two counts alleging that he lived on the earnings of a prostitute. The two...

Nothing could be more welcome, as we commemorate the centenary of the First World War, than an account of what happened in Parliament during the period...

Every Wednesday afternoon when the House of Commons is in session, backbench Conservative MPs meet in the well-known 1922 Committee. When important political...

Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) is widely regarded today as a disastrous Prime Minister, one of the worst in British history. The shadow of appeasement falls...

On 26 August Matthew Parris devoted his weekly column in The Times to the procedures for electing the leader of the Conservative Party. The final decision...

Writing in The Spectator on 29 July, Charles Moore drew attention to an unusual marriage announced in The Times—between Lord Blackmore and Lord Hiscutt in the...

In August 1947, the Indian sub-continent was divided into two independent states, India and Pakistan, following the end of British rule. The provinces of Punjab...

Nearly a hundred of our current MPs studied history at university. That means that more of them than ever before have written and thought about the past during...