Articles

After his return to Downing Street in 1951, Churchill had a pet budgie, called Toby, who was thoroughly spoilt by his master. Alistair Lexden provided a little...

Queen Victoria scarcely turned a hair when on March 2, 1882, Roderick Maclean became the seventh person to try and kill her (“ Mad poet who shot at Victoria”...

The DJ was not invented by New York’s Tuxedo Club in 1886 (letter, Nov.14). One of the club’s members, James Potter Brown, was introduced to it in England by...

President Putin claims that "Britain and France had destroyed any chance for an anti-fascist front with the Munich Agreement"("There was nothing wrong with the...

In a number of articles and addresses Alistair Lexden has discussed various aspects of the Hanoverian succession to the throne 300 years ago, chiefly from the...

Andrew Lansley’s talent for acting foolishly without regard to the financial consequences first became apparent when, as Director of the Conservative Research...

In a letter (attached) in The Daily Telegraph on October 6, he recalled Churchill's strong conviction expressed in a speech in 1949 that individual countries...

My friend Mark Field doubts whether Boris was a Tory at Oxford (NS Profile, 26 September). He was sufficiently interested to apply on graduation for a job in...

Adrian Wooldridge ('The Cameron Way', 27 September) refers to one of Arthur Balfour’s hobbies—golf –but omits two others that were no less important to him...