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Grateful tribute is due to Harry Shindler OBE, who died in Italy at the age of 101 on 21 February. He remained actively involved in public affairs until the...

It was reported recently that the Countess of Swinton had won a seat on her local council in North Yorkshire as a Lib Dem. Alistair Lexden, Conservative Party...

That is the question that Alistair Lexden and cross-party colleagues in the Lords will be considering between now and November as members of a special education...

There is no prospect of an early end to the scandals that have damaged public confidence in the Metropolitan Police so badly. The impressive new Commissioner...

A new edition of the Conservative History Journal, now in its 20th year, has been published this month. Its seventy pages cover a wide variety of topics...

On 17 October, the latest, and the worst, independent report on the problems of the Metropolitan Police was published. It showed that officers suspected of...

In 2020, the Government announced in a major Northern Ireland policy document entitled New Decade, New Approach that a Castlereagh Foundation would be...

The introduction of a British baccalaureate was the principal recommendation of The Times Education Commission, which published its report on 15 June after a...

The Schools Bill, one of the Government’s principal measures in the new Session of Parliament, had its Second Reading in the Lords on 23 May. Alistair Lexden...