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In a recent book review in The Spectator magazine, Alan Johnson, the former Labour cabinet minister, claimed that the first newspaper to sell a million copies...

Robert Clive (1725-74) rose from obscurity in Shropshire to acquire fame and fortune in India. He was a most gifted military commander. At the Battle of Plassey...

On 8 July, an important cross-party Lords Select Committee, of which Alistair Lexden was a member, published a major report on the electoral system, following a...

After a faltering and embarrassing start—four chairmen in two years and the resignation of barristers assigned to it—the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual...

Alistair Lexden’s letter on Ted Heath’s 1970 election triumph ( which you can read here) was the 300th that The Daily Telegraph has published from him. The...

The Lords Committees which scrutinise European policies in detail have been reconstituted this month. This has been done to enable the Lords to concentrate on...

“Change? Why do we need change? Aren’t things bad enough as they are?” These amusing, reactionary words appear from time to time on the lips of politicians and...

On 22 April, Alistair Lexden was due to speak a dinner given by the Political Committee of the Reform Club in London. The text of the address that he would have...

Some people are remembered for just one thing after their death to the exclusion of everything else they achieved. Peter Viggers, an MP for thirty-six years...