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Some 40,000 people were injured, many seriously, during the IRA’s thirty-year campaign in Northern Ireland. Some of the victims were unable to do any form of...

On September 8, Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland Secretary, plunged Boris Johnson into yet another crisis when he confessed in the House of Commons that the...

During a short debate in the House of Lords on 7 September, reference was made (inaccurately) to the exclusion of a newly created peer from the House in the...

Alistair Lexden has joined a large cross-party initiative in both Houses of Parliament to condemn the Chinese government’s systematic oppression of its Uighur...

A rather fine country house in Shropshire with a shady past found itself in the news again for unwelcome reasons on 25 August. The Times reported that Chyknell...

Both in August 1945 and ever since, some people have said that atom bombs should never have been used. Winston Churchill himself answered the critics during a...

Writing as a former adviser to Airey Neave and friend of Ian Gow, Alistair Lexden issued the following statement on August 6. “Last week’s honours list included...

On 30 July, after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two women, the judge told Charlie Elphicke, the former MP for Dover, that he faced “the very real...

In an oral question in the Lords on 22 July, Alistair Lexden asked: “since social distancing could have been arranged so easily at the outset, was it really...