Votes for Women 24th October 2015 A new, widely acclaimed film, Suffragette, has stirred interest in the militant campaign to advance the cause of votes for women before the First World War. Articles
Denis Healey’s Good Turn to the Tories 19th October 2015 In a note published in The Times on October 19, supplementing its obituary of the former Labour Deputy Leader, Alistair Lexden recalled a little incident in... Articles
Corbyn and the Privy Council---Again 13th October 2015 As the controversy over Jeremy Corbyn’s membership of the Privy Council continued, Alistair Lexden returned to the issue in a letter published in the Financial... Articles
Changing the Conservative Party’s Name 8th October 2015 Should the Party adopt another name? An article published in The Daily Telegraph at the start of the Party Conference argued that it should. That prompted a... Articles
Devolution throughout the UK 2nd October 2015 Devolution was first proposed,for Ireland alone, by Gladstone in 1886. A view has grown up among some historians and members of the Liberal Democrats that... Articles
Corbyn and the Privy Council 28th September 2015 Much comment appeared in the press about Jeremy Corbyn’s admission to the Privy Council after his election as Labour leader. In particular his unwillingness to... Articles
Bloated Privy Council 21st September 2015 At the start of the Queen’s reign there were under 300 privy counsellors; now there are over 660. The reluctance of the new Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to... Articles
T.E. Utley Memorial Essay for 2015-16 21st September 2015 T.E. (Peter) Utley CBE* (1921-88), Tory philosopher and writer (chiefly for The Daily Telegraph), was the most brilliant and inspiring man I have ever known... Articles
Stalin's man in London 18th September 2015 How did the British establishment (and the Conservative Party in particular) react to Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador in London before, and during, the... Articles
