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One especially modest prime minister took care to retain his anonymity as he travelled home to Baker Street by underground from Westminster (letter, May 21).

The report from the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution, of which Alistair Lexden has been a member for two years, was launched on May 16.

The thriving Independent Schools Association (ISA), of which Alistair Lexden is President, has instituted a new series of 14 awards recognising the high...

In February, the Lords Constitution Committee, of which Alistair Lexden is a member, published a major report on the constitutional implications of coalition...

Queen Victoria’s taste for nudity was confined strictly to paintings. She would been horrified that Spencer Tunick has invoked her in support of his ventures (...

Richard Ryder (‘The poor man in his castle’, Apr.26) confines Queen Mary’s war-time tyranny at Badminton to the house, but it also extended to the estate. ‘ “...

Sir, Halifax and Churchill were not so far apart in May 1940 as Daniel Finkelstein suggests(Apr 26). They agreed that the war should be ended through a...

In a speech in Northern Ireland on April 16, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Theresa Villiers, said: “I would like to thank my colleagues Lord...

Under both the last government and this one, secret letters were sent to some 200 Irish terrorist suspects, informing them that they were not currently wanted...